Porifera taxon details
Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
165020 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165020)
accepted
Species
Hircinia armata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Hircinia armata var. fistularis Verrill, 1907 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Hircinia filamenta Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Hircinia fistularis Verrill, 1907 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Hircinia nigra Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949 · unaccepted (genus transfer & misapplication)
Ircinia felix f. acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Ircinia felix f. felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (status change)
Ircinia felix f. fistularis (Verrill, 1907) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Ircinia fistularis (Verrill, 1907) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Polytherses acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Polytherses armata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
- Forma Ircinia felix f. acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (junior synonym)
- Forma Ircinia felix f. felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (status change)
- Forma Ircinia felix f. fistularis (Verrill, 1907) accepted as Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 72; pl XIII fig 2 [details]
page(s): 72; pl XIII fig 2 [details]
Type locality contained in Eastern Caribbean
type locality contained in Eastern Caribbean [from synonym] [view taxon] [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. (2025). World Porifera Database. Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=165020 on 2025-06-30
original description
(of Hircinia filamenta Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII. [details]
original description (of Hircinia nigra Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII. [details]
original description (of Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 72; pl XIII fig 2 [details]
original description (of Polytherses acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 72; pl XIII fig 3 [details]
original description (of Polytherses armata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 70; pl XIII fig 1 [details]
original description (of Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 73 [details]
original description (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 19-20; pl 5 fig 1 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Hircinia armata var. fistularis Verrill, 1907) Verrill, A. E. (1907). The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). <em>Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D.
page(s): 332 [details]
context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (1978). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. <i>In</i>: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 56 (179): 1–94.
page(s): 33-35; pl VI-2 [details]
additional source Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 60-61 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 39-41; fig 10 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Díaz, M.C. (2005). Common sponges from shallow marine habitats from Bocas del Toro region, Panama. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 41(3): 465-475. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 468 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. <em>in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York.</em> i-xxx, 1-742.
page(s): 115 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. <em>Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 31: 1-39.
page(s): 23 [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 [request]
additional source Muricy, G.; Lopes, D.A.; Hajdu, E; Carvalho, M.S.; Moraes, F.C.; Klautau, M.; Menegola, C.; Pinheiro, U. (2011). Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. <em>Museu Nacional, Série Livros.</em> 300 pp.
page(s): 58 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rützler, K.; Piantoni, C.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Díaz, M.C. (2014). Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3805(1): 1-129., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3805.1.1
page(s): 93-94 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alcolado, P.M.; Busutil, L. (2012). Inventaire des spongiaires néritiques du Parc National de La Guadeloupe (Inventario de las esponjas neríticas del Parque Nacional de Guadalupe). <em>Serie Oceanológica.</em> 10, 62-76.
page(s): 71 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Moraes, F.C.; Ventura, M.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Muricy, G. (2006). Biodiversidade de esponjas das ilhas oceânicas brasileiras. pp. 147–178 <i>In</i>: Alves, R.J.V. & Castro, J.W.A. (Eds.), Ilhas Oceânicas Brasileiras – da pesquisa ao manejo. Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Secretaria de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Brasília.
page(s): 167 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Vacelet, J. (1990). Les spongiaires. <i>in</i> Le Monde Marin. (ed. Claude Bouchon) pp 16-33. <em>La Grande Encyclopédie de la Caraïbe.</em> Editions Caraïbes, Pointe à Pitre.
page(s): 29 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Díaz, M.C.; Smith, K.P.; Rützler, K. (2004). Species richness and abundance as indicators of mangrove epibenthic community health. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 518, 2-17.
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alcolado, PM. (2007). Comunidades de esponjas de manglares de Cuba in: Ecosistemas de manglar en el archipélago cubano, (eds Carrera, LM; Guzman JM). <em>Academia de Cuba, La Habana.</em> pp 243-253.
page(s): 251 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2017). Sponges of the Guyana Shelf. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4217: 1-225., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4217.1.1
page(s): 19-21 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pérez, T. ; Díaz, M.C.; Ruiz, C.; Cóndor-Luján, B.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Zea, S.; Pomponi, S.A.; Thacker, R.W.; Carteron, S.; Tollu, G.; Pouget-Cuvelier, A.; Thélamon, P.; Marechal, J.-P.; Thomas, O.P.; Ereskovsky, A.E.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2017). How a collaborative integrated taxonomic effort has trained new spongiologists and improved knowledge of Martinique Island (French Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea) marine biodiversity. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 12 (3): e0173859., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173859
page(s): 9 [details]
additional source Green, G.; Fuentes Velasquez, L.E.; Gómez Lopez, P. (1986). Nuevos registros de Porifera del arrecife La Blanquilla, Veracruz, México. <em>Annales Instituto de Ciencias del mar Universidad Autónomico México.</em> 13 (3): 127-146.
page(s): 138 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lizarazo, N.; Zea, S. (2024). Sponges in the continental shelf (73 – 210 m) of the southwestern area of Isla Fuerte and Alta Guajira, with the description of new records for the Colombian Caribbean. <em>Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras.</em> 53(1): 87-116., available online at https://doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2024.53.1.1266
page(s): 93 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 48 (5): 71-103.
page(s): 95-97; fig 22 [details]
basis of record (of Hircinia campana var. felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 546-547 [details]
basis of record (of Ircinia felix f. acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. <em>in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York.</em> i-xxx, 1-742.
page(s): 115 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Ircinia felix f. felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. <em>in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York.</em> i-xxx, 1-742.
page(s): 115 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1949). Sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1431: 1-25.
page(s): 5-6 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1953). Sponges from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean.</em> 2(3): 511-557.
page(s): 514 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949) Little, F.J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology 11(2).</em> 31-71.
page(s): 34 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1950). The Porifera of the Bermuda archipelago. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 27(1): 1-154.
page(s): 9-12 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia fistularis (Verrill, 1907)) Ortiz, M.; Winfield, I.; Chazaro-Olvera, S. (2011). A new sponge-inhabiting leptostracan species of the genus Nebalia (Crustacea: Pyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, Gulf of Mexico. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3027, 52-62. [details]
additional source (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Burton, M. (1954). Sponges. Pp. 215-239, pl. 9. <i>In</i>: The 'Rosaura' Expedition. Part 5. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology.</em> 2 (6).
page(s): 232 [details]
additional source (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A comparison of the shallow-water sponges near the Pacific end of the Panama Canal with those at the Caribbean end. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 83 (2993): 441-466.
page(s): 457 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Wilson, H.V. (1902 [1900]). The sponges collected in Porto Rico in 1899 by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk. <em>Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission.</em> 2: 375-411.
page(s): 405-406 [details]
additional source (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1950). The Porifera of the Bermuda archipelago. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 27(1): 1-154.
page(s): 14-16 [details]
additional source (of Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 197 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia felix f. fistularis (Verrill, 1907)) Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. <em>in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York.</em> i-xxx, 1-742. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source (of Ircinia felix f. fistularis (Verrill, 1907)) 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 [request]
additional source (of Polytherses armata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 196 [details]
additional source (of Polytherses acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 196 [details]
additional source (of Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 196 [details]
new combination reference (of Hircinia armata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)) Verrill, A. E. (1907). The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). <em>Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D.
page(s): 332 [details]
original description (of Hircinia nigra Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII. [details]
original description (of Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 72; pl XIII fig 2 [details]
original description (of Polytherses acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 72; pl XIII fig 3 [details]
original description (of Polytherses armata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 70; pl XIII fig 1 [details]
original description (of Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. <em>Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem.</em> 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 73 [details]
original description (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 19-20; pl 5 fig 1 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Hircinia armata var. fistularis Verrill, 1907) Verrill, A. E. (1907). The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). <em>Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D.
page(s): 332 [details]
context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (1978). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. <i>In</i>: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 56 (179): 1–94.
page(s): 33-35; pl VI-2 [details]
additional source Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 60-61 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 39-41; fig 10 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Díaz, M.C. (2005). Common sponges from shallow marine habitats from Bocas del Toro region, Panama. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 41(3): 465-475. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 468 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. <em>in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York.</em> i-xxx, 1-742.
page(s): 115 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. <em>Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 31: 1-39.
page(s): 23 [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
[request]additional source Muricy, G.; Lopes, D.A.; Hajdu, E; Carvalho, M.S.; Moraes, F.C.; Klautau, M.; Menegola, C.; Pinheiro, U. (2011). Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. <em>Museu Nacional, Série Livros.</em> 300 pp.
page(s): 58 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rützler, K.; Piantoni, C.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Díaz, M.C. (2014). Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3805(1): 1-129., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3805.1.1
page(s): 93-94 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alcolado, P.M.; Busutil, L. (2012). Inventaire des spongiaires néritiques du Parc National de La Guadeloupe (Inventario de las esponjas neríticas del Parque Nacional de Guadalupe). <em>Serie Oceanológica.</em> 10, 62-76.
page(s): 71 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Moraes, F.C.; Ventura, M.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Muricy, G. (2006). Biodiversidade de esponjas das ilhas oceânicas brasileiras. pp. 147–178 <i>In</i>: Alves, R.J.V. & Castro, J.W.A. (Eds.), Ilhas Oceânicas Brasileiras – da pesquisa ao manejo. Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Secretaria de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Brasília.
page(s): 167 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Vacelet, J. (1990). Les spongiaires. <i>in</i> Le Monde Marin. (ed. Claude Bouchon) pp 16-33. <em>La Grande Encyclopédie de la Caraïbe.</em> Editions Caraïbes, Pointe à Pitre.
page(s): 29 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Díaz, M.C.; Smith, K.P.; Rützler, K. (2004). Species richness and abundance as indicators of mangrove epibenthic community health. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 518, 2-17.
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alcolado, PM. (2007). Comunidades de esponjas de manglares de Cuba in: Ecosistemas de manglar en el archipélago cubano, (eds Carrera, LM; Guzman JM). <em>Academia de Cuba, La Habana.</em> pp 243-253.
page(s): 251 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2017). Sponges of the Guyana Shelf. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4217: 1-225., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4217.1.1
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[request]additional source Pérez, T. ; Díaz, M.C.; Ruiz, C.; Cóndor-Luján, B.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Zea, S.; Pomponi, S.A.; Thacker, R.W.; Carteron, S.; Tollu, G.; Pouget-Cuvelier, A.; Thélamon, P.; Marechal, J.-P.; Thomas, O.P.; Ereskovsky, A.E.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2017). How a collaborative integrated taxonomic effort has trained new spongiologists and improved knowledge of Martinique Island (French Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea) marine biodiversity. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 12 (3): e0173859., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173859
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additional source Green, G.; Fuentes Velasquez, L.E.; Gómez Lopez, P. (1986). Nuevos registros de Porifera del arrecife La Blanquilla, Veracruz, México. <em>Annales Instituto de Ciencias del mar Universidad Autónomico México.</em> 13 (3): 127-146.
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[request]additional source Lizarazo, N.; Zea, S. (2024). Sponges in the continental shelf (73 – 210 m) of the southwestern area of Isla Fuerte and Alta Guajira, with the description of new records for the Colombian Caribbean. <em>Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras.</em> 53(1): 87-116., available online at https://doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2024.53.1.1266
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[request]additional source Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 48 (5): 71-103.
page(s): 95-97; fig 22 [details]
basis of record (of Hircinia campana var. felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 546-547 [details]
basis of record (of Ircinia felix f. acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. <em>in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York.</em> i-xxx, 1-742.
page(s): 115 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Ircinia felix f. felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. <em>in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York.</em> i-xxx, 1-742.
page(s): 115 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1949). Sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1431: 1-25.
page(s): 5-6 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1953). Sponges from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean.</em> 2(3): 511-557.
page(s): 514 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949) Little, F.J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology 11(2).</em> 31-71.
page(s): 34 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia fasciculata sensu de Laubenfels, 1949) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1950). The Porifera of the Bermuda archipelago. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 27(1): 1-154.
page(s): 9-12 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia fistularis (Verrill, 1907)) Ortiz, M.; Winfield, I.; Chazaro-Olvera, S. (2011). A new sponge-inhabiting leptostracan species of the genus Nebalia (Crustacea: Pyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, Gulf of Mexico. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3027, 52-62. [details]
additional source (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Burton, M. (1954). Sponges. Pp. 215-239, pl. 9. <i>In</i>: The 'Rosaura' Expedition. Part 5. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology.</em> 2 (6).
page(s): 232 [details]
additional source (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A comparison of the shallow-water sponges near the Pacific end of the Panama Canal with those at the Caribbean end. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 83 (2993): 441-466.
page(s): 457 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Wilson, H.V. (1902 [1900]). The sponges collected in Porto Rico in 1899 by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk. <em>Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission.</em> 2: 375-411.
page(s): 405-406 [details]
additional source (of Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1950). The Porifera of the Bermuda archipelago. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 27(1): 1-154.
page(s): 14-16 [details]
additional source (of Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 197 [details]
additional source (of Ircinia felix f. fistularis (Verrill, 1907)) Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. <em>in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York.</em> i-xxx, 1-742. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source (of Ircinia felix f. fistularis (Verrill, 1907)) 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
[request]additional source (of Polytherses armata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 196 [details]
additional source (of Polytherses acuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 196 [details]
additional source (of Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). <em>Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 196 [details]
new combination reference (of Hircinia armata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)) Verrill, A. E. (1907). The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). <em>Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D.
page(s): 332 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (36 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Polytherses armata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications) (from synonym Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ircinia felix)
To GenBank (49 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To GenBank (49 nucleotides; 37 proteins) (from synonym Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Ircinia felix f. felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2838026) (from synonym Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Ircinia felix)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (90 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 009020.PR)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Polytherses armata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications) (from synonym Hircinia variabilis sensu de Laubenfels, 1936)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ircinia felix)
To GenBank (49 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To GenBank (49 nucleotides; 37 proteins) (from synonym Polytherses felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Ircinia felix f. felix Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2838026) (from synonym Polytherses columnaris Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Ircinia felix)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (90 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 009020.PR)
To ITIS
