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Spheciospongia vagabunda (Ridley, 1884)

170563  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170563)

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Species
Anthosigmella vagabunda (Ridley, 1884) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Spirastrella cylindrica Kieschnick, 1896 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella purpurea digitata Vosmaer, 1911 · unaccepted (unavailable name)
Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. arabica Topsent, 1893 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. fungoides Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. gallensis Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella vagabunda var. tubulodigitata Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Suberites trincomaliensis Carter, 1887 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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(of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. <em>Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London).</em> 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54.
page(s): 468-469 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Type locality contained in Arnhem Coast to Gulf of Carpenteria  
type locality contained in Arnhem Coast to Gulf of Carpenteria [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Description Steep-sided cone, up to 20 cm wide, 12 cm high and surrounded by shorter, rounded projections, or small cones, 1-4 cm high,...  
Description Steep-sided cone, up to 20 cm wide, 12 cm high and surrounded by shorter, rounded projections, or small cones, 1-4 cm high, separated over substrate; base excavates coral rubble; surface undulating; bright orange brown or deep purplish-brown. Habitat: shallow lagoonal reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [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. Spheciospongia vagabunda (Ridley, 1884). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=170563 on 2024-03-28
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original description  (of Suberites trincomaliensis Carter, 1887) Carter, H.J. (1887). Report on the Marine Sponges, chiefly from King Island, in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology.</em> 21(127-128): 61-84, pls 5-7. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. <em>Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London).</em> 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54.
page(s): 468-469 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirastrella cylindrica Kieschnick, 1896) Kieschnick, O. (1896). Silicispongiae von Ternate nach den Sammlungen von Herrn Prof. Dr. W. Kükenthal. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 19 (520): 526-534.
page(s): 534 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. arabica Topsent, 1893) Topsent, E. (1893). Note sur quelques éponges du Golfe de Tadjoura recueillies par M. le Dr. L. Faurot. <em>Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 18: 177-182.
page(s): 177-179 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. fungoides 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): 124 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. gallensis 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): 124-125 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. trincomaliensis Ridley, 1884) Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. <em>Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London).</em> 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54.
page(s): 408 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. tubulodigitata 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): 123-124 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirastrella purpurea digitata Vosmaer, 1911) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1911). The Porifera of the <i>Siboga</i>-expedition: 2. The genus <i>Spirastrella</i>. <i><i>Siboga</i>-Expeditie: uitkomsten op zoölogisch, botanisch, oceanographisch en geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900 aan boord H.M. <i>Siboga</i> onder commando van Luitenant ter Zee 1e kl. G.F. Tydeman</i>, VIa(1). E.J. Brill: Leyden, The Netherlands. 69, plates I-XIV pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 26 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

context source (HKRMS) Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). <i>The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong</i>. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp.  [details]   

additional source Hooper, J.N.A. (2008). Sponges. Pp 170-186. In: P. Hutchings, M.J. Kingsford & I.O. Hoegh-Guldberg (eds). The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and management. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
page(s): 180 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Sutcliffe, P.R.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Pitcher, C.R. 2010. The most common sponges on the Great Barrer Reef seabed, Australia, include species new to science (Phylum Porifera). Zootaxa 2616: 1-30., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02616p030.pdf [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Lim, S.C.; de Voogd, N.J.; Tan, K.S. (2008). A guide to sponges of Singapore. Science Centre Singapore, pp. 1-173.
page(s): 59-62; note: identified as Spheciospongia cf. vagabunda [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Fromont, J.; Vanderklift, M.A. (2009). Porifera (sponges) of Mermaid, Scott and Seringapatam Reefs, north Western Australia. <em>Records of the Western Australian Museum.</em> Supplement 77: 89-103.
page(s): 94 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Samaai, T.; Pillay, R.; Janson, L. (2019). Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4587(1): 1-85., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1
page(s): 15-17 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Calcinai, B.; Belfiore, G.; Pica, D.; Torsani, F.; Palma, M.; Cerrano, C. (2020). Porifera from Ponta do Ouro (Mozambique). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 698: 1-56., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.698
page(s): 31-32 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source George, A.M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Sluka, R.D.; Lazarus, S. (2020). A checklist of marine sponges (Porifera) of peninsula India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4885(2): 277-300., available online at http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EC1CCF10-3E5F-4815-A393-AD9CF6B93C62
page(s): Table 2 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Pereira, P.; Raghunathan, C. (2023). Descriptions of poorly known marine sponges (Phylum Porifera) from the Andaman Islands India with notes on their ecology. <em>Records of the Zological Survey of India, Special Volume.</em> 123 (iS2): 279-306.
page(s): 286 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. arabica Topsent, 1893) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 77 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Wilson, H.V. (1925). Silicious and horny sponges collected by the U.S. Fisheries Steamer ‘Albatross' during the Philippine Expedition,1907-10. pp. 273-532, pls 37-52. <i>In</i>: Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 100 (2, part 4).
page(s): 343-346 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record  (of Anthosigmella vagabunda (Ridley, 1884)) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1954). The Sponges of the West-Central Pacific. <em>Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology.</em> 7: i-x, 1-306,pls I-XII.
page(s): 201-204 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. trincomaliensis Ridley, 1884) 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): 123 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. tubulodigitata Dendy, 1905) George, A.M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Sluka, R.D.; Lazarus, S. (2020). A checklist of marine sponges (Porifera) of peninsula India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4885(2): 277-300., available online at http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EC1CCF10-3E5F-4815-A393-AD9CF6B93C62
page(s): Table 2 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Tendal, O.S. (1969). Demospongiae from the Fiji islands. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn.</em> 132: 31-44.
page(s): 38 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Barnes D.K.A.; Bell, J.J. (2002). Coastal sponge communities of the West Indian Ocean: taxonomic affinities, richness and diversity. <em>African Journal of Ecology.</em> 40: 337-349.
page(s): 342 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Bergquist, P.R.; Morton, J.E.; Tizard, C.A. (1971). Some Demospongiae from the Solomon Islands with descriptive notes on the major sponge habitats. <em>Micronesica.</em> 7 (1-2): 99-121.
page(s): 102 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Thomas, P.A. (2002). Sponges of Papua and New Guinea. IV. Orders Hadromerida Topsent and Epipolasida Sollas. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 44 (1-2): 187-195.
page(s): 187-189 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Thomas, P.A.; Pillai, C.S.G.; Rajagopalan, M.S. (1996). Demospongiae of the Gulf of Kutch. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 8 (1-2): 124-132.
page(s): 132 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella cylindrica Kieschnick, 1896) Thiele, J. (1900). Kieselschwämme von Ternate. I. <em>Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft. Frankfurt.</em> 25: 19-80.
page(s): 69 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. tubulodigitata Dendy, 1905) Dendy, A. (1916). Report on the non-Calcareous Sponges collected by Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal in Kattiawar in 1905-6. <em>Report to the Government of Baroda on the Marine Zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar.</em> 2: 93-146, pls I-IV.
page(s): 132 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1993). A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. <em>Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria".</em> 89: 247-350.
page(s): 270-271 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Bergquist, P.R. (1965). The Sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 19 (2): 123-204.
page(s): 184-185 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Bergquist, P.R.; Tizard, C.A. (1967). Australian Intertidal Sponges from the Darwin Area. <em>Micronesica.</em> 3 (2): 175-202.
page(s): 191-192 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Brøndsted, H.V. (1934). Sponges. <i>In</i>: Van Straelen, V. (Ed.), Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Léopold de Belgique. <em>Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Hors série.</em> 2 (15): 1-27.
page(s): 6 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) 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): 122-123 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Dendy, A. (1922). Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S.'Sealark' in the Indian Ocean. <i>In</i>: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, Vol. 7. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 18 (1): 1-164, pls 1-18.
page(s): 139-140 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Dendy, A.; Frederick, L.M. (1924). On a Collection of Sponges from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology.</em> 35: 477-519, pls 25-26.
page(s): 508 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Kelly-Borges, M.; Bergquist, P.R. (1988). Sponges from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea. <em>Indo-Malayan Zoology.</em> 5: 121-159.
page(s): 130-131 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spirastrella vagabunda Ridley, 1884) Lévi, C. (1967). Démosponges Récoltées en Nouvelle-Calédonie par la Mission Singer-Polignac. <em>Expédition Française sur les récifs coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Paris.</em> 2: 13-28, pls I-III.
page(s): 16-17 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

source of synonymy  (of Spheciospongia vagabunda var. trincomaliensis (Ridley, 1884)) Sutcliffe, P.R.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Pitcher, C.R. 2010. The most common sponges on the Great Barrer Reef seabed, Australia, include species new to science (Phylum Porifera). Zootaxa 2616: 1-30., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02616p030.pdf
page(s): 19 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

source of synonymy  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. tubulodigitata Dendy, 1905) Sutcliffe, P.R.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Pitcher, C.R. 2010. The most common sponges on the Great Barrer Reef seabed, Australia, include species new to science (Phylum Porifera). Zootaxa 2616: 1-30., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02616p030.pdf
page(s): 19 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

source of synonymy  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. trincomaliensis Ridley, 1884) Sutcliffe, P.R.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Pitcher, C.R. 2010. The most common sponges on the Great Barrer Reef seabed, Australia, include species new to science (Phylum Porifera). Zootaxa 2616: 1-30., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02616p030.pdf
page(s): 19 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

source of synonymy  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. gallensis Dendy, 1905) Sutcliffe, P.R.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Pitcher, C.R. 2010. The most common sponges on the Great Barrer Reef seabed, Australia, include species new to science (Phylum Porifera). Zootaxa 2616: 1-30., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02616p030.pdf
page(s): 19 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

source of synonymy  (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. fungoides Dendy, 1905) Sutcliffe, P.R.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Pitcher, C.R. 2010. The most common sponges on the Great Barrer Reef seabed, Australia, include species new to science (Phylum Porifera). Zootaxa 2616: 1-30., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02616p030.pdf
page(s): 19 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
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Unknown type (of Spirastrella vagabunda var. arabica Topsent, 1893) MNHN DT 1867, geounit Gulf of Aden [details]
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Description Steep-sided cone, up to 20 cm wide, 12 cm high and surrounded by shorter, rounded projections, or small cones, 1-4 cm high, separated over substrate; base excavates coral rubble; surface undulating; bright orange brown or deep purplish-brown. Habitat: shallow lagoonal reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details]


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