Deep-Sea taxon details
Bathydorus laevis Schulze, 1896
172030 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172030)
accepted
Species
Bathydorus levis Schulze, 1896 · unaccepted (misspelling of species name)
- Subspecies Bathydorus laevis pseudospinosus Tabachnick & Menshenina, 2013
- Subspecies Bathydorus laevis spinosissimus Lendenfeld, 1915 accepted as Bathydorus spinosissimus Lendenfeld, 1915 (status change)
- Subspecies Bathydorus laevis spinosus Wilson, 1904 accepted as Bathydorus laevis pseudospinosus Tabachnick & Menshenina, 2013 (junior homonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Schulze, F.E. (1896 (1895)). Hexactinelliden des indischen Oceanes. II. Theil. Die Hexasterophora. <em>Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 3: 1-92, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 57-62 [details]
page(s): 57-62 [details]
Type locality contained in Indian Ocean Abyssal Province
type locality contained in Indian Ocean Abyssal Province [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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Bathydorus laevis Schulze, 1896. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=172030 on 2026-09-18
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Bathydorus laevis Schulze, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=172030 on 2026-09-18
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Schulze, F.E. (1896 (1895)). Hexactinelliden des indischen Oceanes. II. Theil. Die Hexasterophora. <em>Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 3: 1-92, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 57-62 [details]
context source (PeRMS) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1915). The Sponges. 3. Hexactinellida.<i> In</i>: Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer 'Albatross', from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., Commanding, and of other expeditions of the 'Albatross', 1891-1899 (29). <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 42 (2): 1-396, pls. 1-109. [details]
additional source Schulze, F.E. (1897). Revision des Systemes der Asconematiden und Rosselliden. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1: 520-558.
page(s): 535-536 [details]
page(s): 57-62 [details]
context source (PeRMS) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1915). The Sponges. 3. Hexactinellida.<i> In</i>: Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer 'Albatross', from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., Commanding, and of other expeditions of the 'Albatross', 1891-1899 (29). <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 42 (2): 1-396, pls. 1-109. [details]
additional source Schulze, F.E. (1897). Revision des Systemes der Asconematiden und Rosselliden. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1: 520-558.
page(s): 535-536 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype ZMB 3631, geounit Indian Ocean Abyssal Province [details]
From editor or global species database
Spelling Species name B. laevis misspelled as B. levis in Schulze, 1902, Wilson (1904), Topsent, 1910 and Tabachnick (2002). ICZN Art. 32.2 (Correct original spelling) forbids changing the subsequent spelling of an original name, even by the original author himself. Schulze's spelling emendation from laevis to levis is probably caused by incorrect latinization of the Greek word for 'light' (which in correct Latin is indeed 'levis'), whereas he originally named his species after the Greek word for 'left'. According to ICZN art. 32.5.1 the incorrect latinization is not an inadvertent error that needs to be corrected. Thus, laevis remains the correct name. [details]
