WoRMS taxon details
Spheciospongia Marshall, 1892
170525 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170525)
accepted
Genus
Alcyonium vesparium Lamarck, 1815 accepted as Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815) (type by original designation)
Heterocliona Verrill, 1907 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Spheciospongia albida (Carter, 1886)
- Species Spheciospongia alcyonoides (Hallmann, 1912)
- Species Spheciospongia areolata (Dendy, 1897)
- Species Spheciospongia australis (Lendenfeld, 1888)
- Species Spheciospongia capensis (Carter, 1882)
- Species Spheciospongia carnosa (Topsent, 1897)
- Species Spheciospongia confoederata Laubenfels, 1930
- Species Spheciospongia congenera (Ridley, 1884)
- Species Spheciospongia digitata (Dendy, 1887)
- Species Spheciospongia excentrica (Burton, 1931)
- Species Spheciospongia florida (Lendenfeld, 1897)
- Species Spheciospongia globularis (Dendy, 1922)
- Species Spheciospongia hentscheli Van Soest, 2024
- Species Spheciospongia inconstans (Dendy, 1887)
- Species Spheciospongia incrustans Carballo, Cruz-Barraza & Gómez, 2004
- Species Spheciospongia lacunosa (Kieschnick, 1898)
- Species Spheciospongia massa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
- Species Spheciospongia mastoidea (Keller, 1891)
- Species Spheciospongia montiformis (Hallmann, 1912)
- Species Spheciospongia ndabazithe Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019
- Species Spheciospongia panis (Thiele, 1898)
- Species Spheciospongia papillosa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
- Species Spheciospongia peleia (de Laubenfels, 1954)
- Species Spheciospongia poculoides (Hallmann, 1912)
- Species Spheciospongia potamophera (de Laubenfels, 1954)
- Species Spheciospongia poterionides (Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971)
- Species Spheciospongia purpurea (Lamarck, 1815)
- Species Spheciospongia ramulosa (Lendenfeld, 1888)
- Species Spheciospongia robusta (Carter, 1886)
- Species Spheciospongia rotunda (Tanita & Hoshino, 1989)
- Species Spheciospongia ruetzleri Carballo, Cruz-Barraza & Gómez, 2004
- Species Spheciospongia solida (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
- Species Spheciospongia spiculifera (Kieschnick, 1898)
- Species Spheciospongia symbiotica Hechtel, 1983
- Species Spheciospongia tentorioides (Dendy, 1905)
- Species Spheciospongia transitoria (Ridley, 1884)
- Species Spheciospongia vagabunda (Ridley, 1884)
- Species Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815)
- Species Spheciospongia arndti de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Spheciospongia inconstans (Dendy, 1887) (junior synonym)
- Species Spheciospongia cuspidifera (Lamarck, 1815) accepted as Cervicornia cuspidifera (Lamarck, 1815) (genus transfer)
- Species Spheciospongia digitata (sensu Hentschel, 1909) accepted as Spheciospongia hentscheli Van Soest, 2024 (preoccupied)
- Species Spheciospongia othello de Laubenfels, 1950 accepted as Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815) (junior synonym)
- Species Spheciospongia semilunaris (Lindgren, 1897) accepted as Spirastrella semilunaris Lindgren, 1897 (reverted genus transfer)
- Species Spheciospongia vesparia accepted as Spheciospongia vesparium (Lamarck, 1815) (misspelling of species name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Marshall, W. (1892). Spongiologische Beiträge. <em>Festschrift zur siebzigsten Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Rudolf Leuckart. C. F. Winter, Leipzig.</em> 1-36., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/Spongiologische00n#page/3/mode/1up [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 Marshall, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=170525 on 2024-04-16
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original description
Marshall, W. (1892). Spongiologische Beiträge. <em>Festschrift zur siebzigsten Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Rudolf Leuckart. C. F. Winter, Leipzig.</em> 1-36., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/Spongiologische00n#page/3/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Heterocliona Verrill, 1907) Verrill, A. E. (1907). The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). <em>Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D.
page(s): 342 [details]
basis of record Rützler, K. (2002). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Heterocliona Verrill, 1907) Verrill, A. E. (1907). The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). <em>Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D.
page(s): 342 [details]
basis of record Rützler, K. (2002). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request] basis of record Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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