WoRMS name details
Halichondria bowerbanki Burton, 1930
132588 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132588)
alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Species
- Variety Halichondria bowerbanki var. stellifera Breton, Girard & Lagardère, 1995 accepted as Halichondria (Halichondria) bowerbanki Burton, 1930 (unaccepted > unavailable name, ICZN art. 15.2)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Burton, M. (1930). Additions to the Sponge Fauna at Plymouth. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 16(2): 489-507.
page(s): 489-491 [details]
page(s): 489-491 [details]
Type locality contained in Celtic Seas
type locality contained in Celtic Seas [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. Halichondria bowerbanki Burton, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132588 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
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Burton, M. (1930). Additions to the Sponge Fauna at Plymouth. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 16(2): 489-507.
page(s): 489-491 [details]
basis of record 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]
basis of record Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). <em>A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society.</em> 1-175.
page(s): 127-129 [details]
page(s): 489-491 [details]
basis of record 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]
basis of record Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). <em>A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society.</em> 1-175.
page(s): 127-129 [details]
Other
additional source
Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. <em>Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg).</em> Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.</em> pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 15 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Cardone, F.; Corriero, G.; Fianchini, A.; Gravina, M. F.; Nonnis Marzano, C. (2014). Biodiversity of transitional waters: species composition and comparative analysis of hard bottom communities from the south-eastern Italian coast. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 94(01): 25-34., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413001306
page(s): 4 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 960-963; Lám. 124 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Girard-Descatoire, A.; Castric-Fey, A.; L'Hardy-Halos, M.T. (1995). Inventaire de la Faune et de la Flore sur les fonds rocheux autour de l'île d'Ouessant. Rapport ADMS, Direction Régionale de l'Environnement Bretagne, Conseil Régional de Bretagne, Conseil Général du Finistère, Fonds Européens, Rennes., 148pp. Convention ZNIEFF 94.
page(s): Annexe 1, 8 [details]
additional source Castric-Fey, A. (1996). Richesse et biodiversité en mer mégatidale: communautés sublittorales rocheuses de la région de Trébeurden-Ploumanac'h (Nord Bretagne France). <em>Cahiers de Biologie marine.</em> 37, 7-31.
page(s): 22 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ereskovsky, A.; Kovtun, O.A.; Pronin, K.K.; Apostolov, A.; Erpenbeck, D.; Ivanenko, V. (2018). Sponge community of the western Black Sea shallow water caves: diversity and spatial distribution. <em>PeerJ.</em> 6: e4596., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/4596/
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Naveiro Millán, A. (2002). Poríferos de la costa da Arrábida (Portugal). Clase Demospongiae. <em>Tesina Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 165 pp.
page(s): 59-60 Figura 21 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source 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): 233 [details]
additional source Descatoire, A. (1969). Peuplements sessiles de l'Archipel de Glénan de l'infralittoral rocheux. I. - Inventaire: Spongiaires. <em>Vie et Milieu (B, Océanographie).</em> 20 (1B): 177-209.
page(s): 198 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1977). Marine and freshwater sponges (Porifera) of the Netherlands. <em>Zoölogische Mededelingen. Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden.</em> 50(16): 261-273.
page(s): 268 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. <em>Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.</em> 159: 205-219. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Vethaak, A.D.; Cronie, R.J.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1982). Ecology and distribution of two sympatric, closely related sponge species, <i>Halichondria panicea</i> (Pallas, 1766) and <i>H. bowerbanki</i> Burton,1930 (Porifera, Demospongiae), with remarks on their speciation. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 52(2): 82-102.
page(s): 86 [details]
additional source Wapstra, M.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1987). Sexual reproduction, larval morphology and behaviour in demosponges from the southwest of the Netherlands. <i>In</i>: Vacelet J., Boury-Esnault N. (eds) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. <em>NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series G, Ecological Sciences, Springer, Heidelberg.</em> 13: 281-307. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 285 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wintermann-Kilian, G.; Kilian, E.F. (1984). Marine Sponges of the Region of Santa Marta (Colombia). Part II. Homosclerophorida, Choristida, Spirophorida, Hadromerida, Axinellida, Halichondrida, Poecilosclerida. <em>Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment.</em> 19(3): 121-135.
page(s): 132; note: misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Carballo, J.L.; Garcia-Gómez, J.C. (1994). Esponjas del Estrecho de Gibraltar y áreas próximas, con nuevas aportaciones para la fauna Iberica [Porifera from the Straits of Gibraltar and nearby areas, new species of the Iberian fauna]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 35(2): 193-211. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 197 [details]
additional source Gosner, K.L. (1979). A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. <em>Wiley-Interscience, Boston.</em> 329pp., figs. 1-72, pls. 1-64. [pdf copepods only]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Labate, M.; Arena, P. (1964). La fauna dei Poriferi nei laghi di Ganzirri e Faro (Messina). <em>Archivo Zoologico Italiano.</em> 49: 249-280.
page(s): 265-267; fig 5 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Erpenbeck, D.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Maggs, C.; Allcock, A. (2012). Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 62(1): 174-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.016
page(s): 176 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.</em> pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 15 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Cardone, F.; Corriero, G.; Fianchini, A.; Gravina, M. F.; Nonnis Marzano, C. (2014). Biodiversity of transitional waters: species composition and comparative analysis of hard bottom communities from the south-eastern Italian coast. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 94(01): 25-34., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413001306
page(s): 4 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. <em>Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 1036 pp.
page(s): 960-963; Lám. 124 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Girard-Descatoire, A.; Castric-Fey, A.; L'Hardy-Halos, M.T. (1995). Inventaire de la Faune et de la Flore sur les fonds rocheux autour de l'île d'Ouessant. Rapport ADMS, Direction Régionale de l'Environnement Bretagne, Conseil Régional de Bretagne, Conseil Général du Finistère, Fonds Européens, Rennes., 148pp. Convention ZNIEFF 94.
page(s): Annexe 1, 8 [details]
additional source Castric-Fey, A. (1996). Richesse et biodiversité en mer mégatidale: communautés sublittorales rocheuses de la région de Trébeurden-Ploumanac'h (Nord Bretagne France). <em>Cahiers de Biologie marine.</em> 37, 7-31.
page(s): 22 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ereskovsky, A.; Kovtun, O.A.; Pronin, K.K.; Apostolov, A.; Erpenbeck, D.; Ivanenko, V. (2018). Sponge community of the western Black Sea shallow water caves: diversity and spatial distribution. <em>PeerJ.</em> 6: e4596., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/4596/
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Naveiro Millán, A. (2002). Poríferos de la costa da Arrábida (Portugal). Clase Demospongiae. <em>Tesina Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 165 pp.
page(s): 59-60 Figura 21 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source 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): 233 [details]
additional source Descatoire, A. (1969). Peuplements sessiles de l'Archipel de Glénan de l'infralittoral rocheux. I. - Inventaire: Spongiaires. <em>Vie et Milieu (B, Océanographie).</em> 20 (1B): 177-209.
page(s): 198 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1977). Marine and freshwater sponges (Porifera) of the Netherlands. <em>Zoölogische Mededelingen. Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden.</em> 50(16): 261-273.
page(s): 268 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. <em>Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.</em> 159: 205-219. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Vethaak, A.D.; Cronie, R.J.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1982). Ecology and distribution of two sympatric, closely related sponge species, <i>Halichondria panicea</i> (Pallas, 1766) and <i>H. bowerbanki</i> Burton,1930 (Porifera, Demospongiae), with remarks on their speciation. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 52(2): 82-102.
page(s): 86 [details]
additional source Wapstra, M.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1987). Sexual reproduction, larval morphology and behaviour in demosponges from the southwest of the Netherlands. <i>In</i>: Vacelet J., Boury-Esnault N. (eds) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. <em>NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series G, Ecological Sciences, Springer, Heidelberg.</em> 13: 281-307. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 285 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wintermann-Kilian, G.; Kilian, E.F. (1984). Marine Sponges of the Region of Santa Marta (Colombia). Part II. Homosclerophorida, Choristida, Spirophorida, Hadromerida, Axinellida, Halichondrida, Poecilosclerida. <em>Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment.</em> 19(3): 121-135.
page(s): 132; note: misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Carballo, J.L.; Garcia-Gómez, J.C. (1994). Esponjas del Estrecho de Gibraltar y áreas próximas, con nuevas aportaciones para la fauna Iberica [Porifera from the Straits of Gibraltar and nearby areas, new species of the Iberian fauna]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 35(2): 193-211. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 197 [details]
additional source Gosner, K.L. (1979). A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. <em>Wiley-Interscience, Boston.</em> 329pp., figs. 1-72, pls. 1-64. [pdf copepods only]. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Labate, M.; Arena, P. (1964). La fauna dei Poriferi nei laghi di Ganzirri e Faro (Messina). <em>Archivo Zoologico Italiano.</em> 49: 249-280.
page(s): 265-267; fig 5 [details] Available for editors
[request]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 Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Erpenbeck, D.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Maggs, C.; Allcock, A. (2012). Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 62(1): 174-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.016
page(s): 176 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal United States part of the North Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Aquaculture: accidental [details]Unreviewed
Holotype BMNH [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | sliertige broodspons | [details] |
| English | Bowerbank's horny spongeBowerbank's halichondria | [details] |
| French | éponge de Bowerbank | [details] |
BIOTIC
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Halichondria bowerbanki)
To GenBank (46 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (30 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 001842.PR)
To ITIS
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Halichondria bowerbanki)
To GenBank (46 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (30 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 001842.PR)
To ITIS
