Deep-Sea taxon details
Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
131953 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131953)
accepted
Genus
Anchinoe Gray, 1867 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Bipocillopsis Koltun, 1964 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Plumohalichondria Carter, 1876 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Stylostichon Topsent, 1892 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Suberotelites Schmidt, 1868 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Phorbas acanthochela (Koltun, 1964)
- Species Phorbas areolatus (Thiele, 1905)
- Species Phorbas baffini (Brøndsted, 1933)
- Species Phorbas demonstrans (Topsent, 1890)
- Species Phorbas dendyi (Topsent, 1890)
- Species Phorbas erectus Lévi, 1993
- Species Phorbas fictitius (Bowerbank, 1866)
- Species Phorbas glaberrimus (Topsent, 1916)
- Species Phorbas megasigma Ríos & Cristobo, 2007
- Species Phorbas mercator (Schmidt, 1868)
- Species Phorbas microchelifer (Cabioch, 1968)
- Species Phorbas nexus (Koltun, 1964)
- Species Phorbas perarmatus (Bowerbank, 1866)
- Species Phorbas repens (Topsent, 1904)
- Species Phorbas robustus (Topsent, 1928)
- Species Phorbas neptuni (Schmidt, 1875) accepted as Phorbas perarmatus (Bowerbank, 1866) (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
masculine
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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11943
page(s): 91 [details]
page(s): 91 [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. Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131953 on 2026-09-18
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131953 on 2026-09-18
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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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11943
page(s): 91 [details]
original description (of Plumohalichondria Carter, 1876) Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937608682078 [details]
original description (of Anchinoe Gray, 1867) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details]
original description (of Bipocillopsis Koltun, 1964) Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 79 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Suberotelites Schmidt, 1868) Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V. [details]
original description (of Stylostichon Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 2: 1-165, pls I-XI.
page(s): 111-112 [details]
additional source Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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]
page(s): 91 [details]
original description (of Plumohalichondria Carter, 1876) Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937608682078 [details]
original description (of Anchinoe Gray, 1867) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details]
original description (of Bipocillopsis Koltun, 1964) Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 79 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Suberotelites Schmidt, 1868) Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V. [details]
original description (of Stylostichon Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 2: 1-165, pls I-XI.
page(s): 111-112 [details]
additional source Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Grammatical gender Phorbas, a name from Greek mythology, may have various male origins, a.o. the King of Argos or one of the sons of Poseidon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorbas). [details]Unreviewed
identification Phorbas spec.aff.stylata Burton,1930 [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Phorbas)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stylostichon) (from synonym Stylostichon Topsent, 1892)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Stylostichon Topsent, 1892)
To Genbank (from synonym Anchinoe Gray, 1867)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 077857)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stylostichon) (from synonym Stylostichon Topsent, 1892)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Stylostichon Topsent, 1892)
To Genbank (from synonym Anchinoe Gray, 1867)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 077857)
To ITIS
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