WoRMS taxon details
Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759
165220 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165220)
accepted
Species
Euspongia adriatica (Schmidt, 1862) · unaccepted
Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862) · unaccepted
Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia (Spongia) officinalis var. exigua (Schulze, 1879) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Spongia officinalis mediterranea Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (unavailable name)
Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. tubuliformis Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable name)
Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongia officinalis var. exigua (Schulze, 1879) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Variety Spongia (Spongia) officinalis var. irregularis (Schulze, 1879)
- Variety Spongia (Spongia) officinalis var. exigua (Schulze, 1879) accepted as Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/587267
page(s): 1348 [details]
page(s): 1348 [details]
Neotype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) BMNH...
Neotype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) BMNH 1883.12.4.28 [details]
Neotype (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) BMNH 1883.12.4.28, geounit Adriatic Sea [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. Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165220 on 2024-04-19
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original description
(of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/587267
page(s): 1348 [details]
original description (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 20-22; pl II fig 1 [details]
original description (of Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 22-23; pl II fig 2 & pl III fig 1 [details]
original description (of Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879) 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): 620; pl XXXIV fig 5-7; pl XXXV fig 6-7 [details]
original description (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea 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.
page(s): 511 [details]
original description (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. tubuliformis 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 Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 20 [details]
basis of record Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Topaloğlu, B.; Evcen, A.; Cinar, M. E. (2016). Sponge fauna in the Sea of Marmara. <em>Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 16(1): 51-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.4194/1303-2712-v16_1_06
page(s): 53 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Costa, G.; Betti, F.; Nepote, E.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Pansini, M.; Bavestrello, G.; Bertolino, M. (2018). Sponge community variations within two semi-submerged caves of the Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) over a half-century time span. <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 85 (1): 382-392., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1525439
page(s): 386 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2158 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Roveta, C.; Marrocco, T.; Calcinai, B.; Pulido Mantas, T.; Pica, D.; Valisano, L.; Puce, S. (2022). Unravelling the sponge diversity of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 89(1): 310-323., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2042406
page(s): 314 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Krikech, I.; Le Pennec, G.; Ezziyyani, M. (2022). Preliminary study of the shallow water sponges (Demospongiae) from the north-central Moroccan Mediterranean coast. <em>AACL Bioflux.</em> 15 (1): 305-313.
page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Eckhel, G. von. (1873). Der Badeschwamm in Rücksicht auf die Art seiner Gewinnung, geographische Verbreitung und locale Variation. <em>Triest, Buchdrückerei de Oesterreichischen Lloyd.</em> 1-42, 2 pls, 1 map. [details]
status source Agne, S.; Ekins, M.; Galitz, A.; Hofreiter, M.; Preick, M.; Straube, N.; Wörheide, G.; Erpenbeck, D. (2022). Keratose sponge MuseOMICS: setting reference points in dictyoceratid demosponge phylogeny. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5195(3): 296-300., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5195.3.9
page(s): 297 & 298 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 1348 [details]
original description (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 20-22; pl II fig 1 [details]
original description (of Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 22-23; pl II fig 2 & pl III fig 1 [details]
original description (of Euspongia officinalis var. exigua Schulze, 1879) 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): 620; pl XXXIV fig 5-7; pl XXXV fig 6-7 [details]
original description (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea 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.
page(s): 511 [details]
original description (of Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. tubuliformis 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 Spongia officinalis mediterranea var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 20 [details]
basis of record Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Topaloğlu, B.; Evcen, A.; Cinar, M. E. (2016). Sponge fauna in the Sea of Marmara. <em>Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 16(1): 51-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.4194/1303-2712-v16_1_06
page(s): 53 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Costa, G.; Betti, F.; Nepote, E.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Pansini, M.; Bavestrello, G.; Bertolino, M. (2018). Sponge community variations within two semi-submerged caves of the Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) over a half-century time span. <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 85 (1): 382-392., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1525439
page(s): 386 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2158 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Roveta, C.; Marrocco, T.; Calcinai, B.; Pulido Mantas, T.; Pica, D.; Valisano, L.; Puce, S. (2022). Unravelling the sponge diversity of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 89(1): 310-323., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2042406
page(s): 314 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Krikech, I.; Le Pennec, G.; Ezziyyani, M. (2022). Preliminary study of the shallow water sponges (Demospongiae) from the north-central Moroccan Mediterranean coast. <em>AACL Bioflux.</em> 15 (1): 305-313.
page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Eckhel, G. von. (1873). Der Badeschwamm in Rücksicht auf die Art seiner Gewinnung, geographische Verbreitung und locale Variation. <em>Triest, Buchdrückerei de Oesterreichischen Lloyd.</em> 1-42, 2 pls, 1 map. [details]
status source Agne, S.; Ekins, M.; Galitz, A.; Hofreiter, M.; Preick, M.; Straube, N.; Wörheide, G.; Erpenbeck, D. (2022). Keratose sponge MuseOMICS: setting reference points in dictyoceratid demosponge phylogeny. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5195(3): 296-300., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5195.3.9
page(s): 297 & 298 [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Neotype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) BMNH 1883.12.4.28 [details]
Neotype (of Euspongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt, 1862)) BMNH 1883.12.4.28, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
Nontype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) MRAC 507 [details]
Nontype (of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759) MRAC 558 [details]
Syntype (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) LMJG 15384, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
Syntype (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) LMJG 15404, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
Syntype (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) LMJG 15474, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
Syntype (of Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862) LMJG 15949, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Neotype The neotype designation by Burton (1934: 570) is not warranted because there is a syntype series of 4 specimens in the Graz Museum (LMJG). Neotypes are only warranted if there is no extant original type material. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | sfungjeri i tualetit [from synonym] | [details] |
| Dutch | badspons [from synonym] | [details] |
| English | Turkey cup spongefine Levant spongebath sponge [from synonym] | [details] |
| German | Tafelschwamm [from synonym]Feiner LevantinerschwammDalmatiner Schwamm [from synonym]Badeschwamm [from synonym] | [details] |
| Italian | spugna da bagno [from synonym] | [details] |
| Japanese | モクヨクカイメン [from synonym] | [details] |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | ΦίνοΜελάτια | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (140 publications) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (166 publications) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To GenBank (55 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI (from synonym Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862)
To PESI (from synonym Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862)
To PESI (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (15 records) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (19 records) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (3 records) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (4 records) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (44 records) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (45 records) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (7 records) (from synonym Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (9 records) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 23200) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 008561.PR) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (140 publications) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (166 publications) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To GenBank (55 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI (from synonym Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862)
To PESI (from synonym Spongia officinalis var. adriatica Schmidt, 1862)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862)
To PESI (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (15 records) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (19 records) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (3 records) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (4 records) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (44 records) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (45 records) (from synonym Euspongia officinalis (Linnaeus, 1759))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (7 records) (from synonym Spongia adriatica Schmidt, 1862)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (9 records) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 23200) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 008561.PR) (from synonym Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759)
