WoRMS taxon details
Spongionella Bowerbank, 1862
131748 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131748)
accepted
Genus
Spongia pulchella Sowerby, 1804 accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804) (type by monotypy)
Megalopastas Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Phyllospongia (Spongionella) (Bowerbank, 1862) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Velinea Vosmaer, 1883 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Spongionella depressa Topsent, 1929
- Species Spongionella foliascens Kelly-Borges, Pomponi & Vacelet, 1993
- Species Spongionella gracilis (Vosmaer, 1883)
- Species Spongionella monoprocta Lévi, 1961
- Species Spongionella nigra Dendy, 1889
- Species Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)
- Species Spongionella pulvilla (Dendy, 1905)
- Species Spongionella ramodigitata (Topsent, 1901)
- Species Spongionella regularis (Ridley, 1881)
- Species Spongionella repens (Thiele, 1905)
- Species Spongionella retiara (Dendy, 1916)
- Species Spongionella tubulosa Burton, 1937
- Species Spongionella carteri (Burton, 1930) accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804) (junior synonym)
- Species Spongionella chondrodes de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Lendenfeldia chondrodes (de Laubenfels, 1954) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongionella frondosa sensu Burton, 1959 accepted as Cacospongia symbiotica Burton, 1959 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Spongionella hermanni (Topsent, 1932) accepted as Pseudobasta hermanni Topsent, 1932
- Species Spongionella holdsworthii Bowerbank, 1873 accepted as Phyllospongia papyracea (Esper, 1806) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Spongionella repens (Topsent, 1928) accepted as Spongionella depressa Topsent, 1929 (preoccupied)
- Species Spongionella schmidtii (Marenzeller, 1878) accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804) (junior synonym)
- Species Spongionella zetlandica (Bowerbank, 1866) accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804) (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV. [details] 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Spongionella Bowerbank, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131748 on 2024-04-16
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original description
Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV. [details]
original description (of Megalopastas Dendy, 1905) Dendy, A. (1905). Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3 (Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London).</em> Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI.
page(s): 204-205 [details]
original description (of Velinea Vosmaer, 1883) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1883). Studies on Sponges. I. On <i>Velinea gracilis</i>, n. g.; n. sp. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel.</em> 4: 437-447,pls 31-32. [details]
basis of record Vacelet, J. (1959). Répartition générale des éponges et systématique des éponges cornées de la région de Marseille et de quelques stations méditerranéennes. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 16 (26): 39-101, pls 1-3.
page(s): 70-72 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 88 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Bergquist, P.R. (1980). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (class Demospongiae). <em>New Zealand Journal of Zoology.</em> 7 (4): 443-503.
page(s): 482-484 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Megalopastas Dendy, 1905) Dendy, A. (1905). Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman,at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>In: Herdman, W.A. (Ed.), Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. 3 (Supplement 18). (Royal Society: London).</em> Pp. 57-246, pls I-XVI.
page(s): 204-205 [details]
original description (of Velinea Vosmaer, 1883) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1883). Studies on Sponges. I. On <i>Velinea gracilis</i>, n. g.; n. sp. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel.</em> 4: 437-447,pls 31-32. [details]
basis of record Vacelet, J. (1959). Répartition générale des éponges et systématique des éponges cornées de la région de Marseille et de quelques stations méditerranéennes. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 16 (26): 39-101, pls 1-3.
page(s): 70-72 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 88 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Bergquist, P.R. (1980). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (class Demospongiae). <em>New Zealand Journal of Zoology.</em> 7 (4): 443-503.
page(s): 482-484 [details] Available for editors
[request] 
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