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WoRMS name details

Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862)

AphiaID

165101 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165101)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior synonym)

Accepted Name

Hippospongia communis (Lamarck, 1814)

Rank

Species

Parent

Hippospongia Schulze, 1879

Original name

Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862

Direct children (5)

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Variety Hippospongia equina var. cerebriformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Smenospongia cerebriformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (genus transfer and status change)
Variety Hippospongia equina var. elastica Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia elastica Lendenfeld, 1889 (status change)
Variety Hippospongia equina var. massa Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia massa Lendenfeld, 1889
Variety Hippospongia equina var. meandriniformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) accepted as Hippospongia gossypina (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (junior synonym)
Variety Hippospongia equina var. micropora Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Hippospongia micropora (Lendenfeld, 1889) (status change)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 23; pl II fig 5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. (2025). World Porifera Database. Hippospongia equina (Schmidt, 1862). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165101 on 2025-04-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

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2010-04-24 15:43:26Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Spongia equina Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 23; pl II fig 5 [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 302-304 [details]

Other

additional source Schulze, F.E. (1879). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Siebente Mittheilung. Die Familie der Spongidae. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32: 593-660, pls XXXIV-XXXVIII.
page(s): 614, pl XXXV fig 14; pl XXXVII fig 4 [details]

additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors