Deep-Sea taxon details
Topsentia Berg, 1899
131821 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131821)
accepted
Genus
Anisoxya glabra Topsent, 1898 accepted as Topsentia glabra (Topsent, 1898) (type by original designation)
Anisoxya Topsent, 1898 · unaccepted (preoccupied)
Trachyopsis Dendy, 1905 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Topsentia bubaroides (Lévi & Lévi, 1983)
- Species Topsentia fibrosa (Fristedt, 1887)
- Species Topsentia glabra (Topsent, 1898)
- Species Topsentia halichondrioides (Dendy, 1905)
- Species Topsentia levivaceletorum Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Species Topsentia pachastrelloides (Topsent, 1892)
- Species Topsentia profunditatis (Schmidt, 1870)
- Species Topsentia pseudoporrecta Diaz, van Soest & Pomponi, 1993
- Species Topsentia topsenti (Lévi & Vacelet, 1958) accepted as Topsentia levivaceletorum Van Soest & Hooper, 2020 (preoccupied)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Berg, C. (1899). Substitución de nombres genéricos. III. <em>Communicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires.</em> 1 (3): 77-80. [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. Topsentia Berg, 1899. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131821 on 2026-09-03
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Topsentia Berg, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131821 on 2026-09-03
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original description
Berg, C. (1899). Substitución de nombres genéricos. III. <em>Communicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires.</em> 1 (3): 77-80. [details]
original description (of Trachyopsis 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): 147 [details]
original description (of Anisoxya Topsent, 1898) Topsent, E. (1898). Eponges nouvelles des Açores. (Première serie). <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 11: 225-255. [details]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_84 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [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]
original description (of Trachyopsis 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): 147 [details]
original description (of Anisoxya Topsent, 1898) Topsent, E. (1898). Eponges nouvelles des Açores. (Première serie). <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 11: 225-255. [details]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_84 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [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
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anisoxya) (from synonym Anisoxya Topsent, 1898)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Topsentia)
To Genbank (from synonym Anisoxya Topsent, 1898)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 086863)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Topsentia)
To Genbank (from synonym Anisoxya Topsent, 1898)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 086863)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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