Deep-Sea taxon details
Thenea muricata (Bowerbank, 1858)
134106 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134106)
accepted
Species
Clavellomorpha minima Hansen, 1885 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Stelletta profunditatis Schmidt, 1880 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Wyvillethomsonia wallichii Wright, 1870 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Bowerbank, J.S. (1858). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI. [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. Thenea muricata (Bowerbank, 1858). 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=134106 on 2026-08-27
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Thenea muricata (Bowerbank, 1858). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134106 on 2026-08-27
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original description
(of ) Bowerbank, J.S. (1858). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI. [details]
original description (of Clavellomorpha minima Hansen, 1885) Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. <em>Zoology.</em> 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map.
page(s): 19 [details]
original description (of Stelletta profunditatis Schmidt, 1880) Schmidt, O. (1880). Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Heft II. Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Abtheilung III. Tetractinelliden. Monactinelliden und Anhang. Nachträge zu Abtheilung I (Lithistiden). Pp. 33-90, pls V-X. <i>In</i>: Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake'. (Gustav Fischer:Jena).
page(s): 70 [details]
original description (of Wyvillethomsonia wallichii Wright, 1870) Wright, E.P. (1870). Notes on Sponges. 1, On <i>Hyalonema mirabilis</i>,Gray. 2, <i>Aphrocallistes Bocagei</i> sp. nov. 3, On a new Genus and Species of Deep Sea Sponge. <em>Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.</em> 10:1-9, pls I-III., available online at https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.s2-10.37.1
page(s): 8-9 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Maldonado, M. (2002). Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875. Pp.141-162. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+xvliii, ISBN 0-306-47260-0., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_15 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Maldonado, M. (2002[2004]). Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875. Pp.141-162. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
additional source Arnesen, E. (1920 [1932]). Spongia. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition, 1910.</em> 3 (II): 1-29.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Babić, K. (1917). Zur Kenntnis der Theneen. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere.</em> 40: 389-408, pls 16–18. [details]
additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 65 [details] Available for editors
additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1994). Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d'Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 160: 1-174., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MNHN_MMNHN_S000_1994_T160_N000_1
page(s): 51-52; fig 28; note: quite abundant species in all areas of ibero-morrocan gulf & Alboran sea [details] Available for editors
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1930.tb00989.x
page(s): 488 [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1931). The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. <em>Tromsø Museum Skrifter.</em> 1 (13): 1-8.
page(s): 2 [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. <em>Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen).</em> 4: 111-147.
page(s): 142 [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1959). Sponges. <em>In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition 1933-34. 10(5). British Museum (Natural History): London.</em> Pp. 151-281., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49512735
page(s): 189-191; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1959). Spongia. Pp. 1-71. <i>In</i>: Fridriksson, A. & Tuxen, S.L.(Eds), The Zoology of Iceland. 2(3-4). Ejnar Munksgaard: Copenhagen& Reykjavik.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2012). A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3253: 1-52., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03253p053.pdf [details]
additional source Díaz, J.A.; Ordines, F.; Massutí, E.; Cárdenas, P. (2024). From caves to seamounts: the hidden diversity of tetractinellid sponges from the Balearic Islands, with the description of eight new species. <em>PeerJ.</em> 12., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16584
page(s): 133 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fourt, M.; Goujard, A.; Pérez, T.; Chevaldonné, P. (2017). Guide de la faune profonde de la mer Méditerranée. Explorations des roches et des canyons sous-marins des côtes françaises. <em>Patrimoines naturels. Publications scientifiques du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris.</em> 75: 1-184. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 27 [details] Available for editors
additional source Gamulin-Brida, H. (1969). A contribution to the study of the tetractinellid sponge <i>Thenea muricata</i> with special consideration of its importance in the bionomics of the Adriatic sea. <em>Thalassia Jugoslavica.</em> 5: 89-95. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. <em>Zoology.</em> 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map.
page(s): 18 [details]
additional source Kent, W. Saville. (1870). On the 'Hexactinellidae' or Hexradiate Spiculed Silicious Sponges taken in the 'Norna' Expedition off the coast of Spain and Portugal. With Description of New Species, and Revision of the Order. <em>Monthly Microscopical Journal 4.</em> 241-252, pls LXIII-LXV., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1870.tb01123.x
page(s): 214 [details]
additional source Levinsen, G.M.R. (1887). Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). <em>Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte.</em> 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI. [details]
additional source Pansini, M. (1987). Report on a collection of Demospongiae from soft bottoms of the Eastern Adriatic Sea. <i>In</i>: Jones WC (ed) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. <em>Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station.</em> 1, 41-53.
page(s): 43 [details]
additional source Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 12 (4): 317-329., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.1991.tb00261.x
page(s): 321 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1972 [1970]). Report on a collection of sponges from the Bay of Naples. 1. Sclerospongiae, Lithistida, Tetractinellida, Epipolasida. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 38 (2): 328-354.
page(s): 348-349 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 474 [details] Available for editors
additional source Rezvoi, P. (1924). Contribution towards the sponge fauna of the Kara and Barents Seas (In Russian with English summary). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Lesshaft.</em> 8: 241-250.
page(s): 241 [details] Available for editors
additional source Rezvoi, P. (1928). Contribution to the fauna of Porifera in the Barents Sea. <em>Transactions of the Institute for the scientific exploration of the North.</em> 37: 67-95 (in Russian with English summary).
page(s): 75-76 [details]
additional source Rützler, K. (1966). Die Poriferen einer sorrentiner Höhle. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Tyrrhenia-Expedition 1952. Teil. XVIII. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 176 (5), 303-319.
page(s): 312 [details] Available for editors
additional source Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 131: 75-86., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.11.003
page(s): Supplementary data [details] Available for editors
additional source Sarà, M. (1958). Contributo all consoscenza dei Poriferi del Mar Ligure. <em>Annali di Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Genova.</em> 70(1): 207-244.
page(s): 216 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
page(s): SUP. MAT. Appendix 1 [details] Available for editors
additional source Steenstrup, E.; Tendal, O.S. 1982. The genus <i>Thenea</i> (Porifera. Demospongia, Choristida) in the Norwegian Sea and adjacent waters; an annotated key. Sarsia 67(4): 259-268., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00364827.1982.10421340 [details] Available for editors
additional source Stephens, J. (1915). Sponges of the Coasts of Ireland. I.- The Triaxonia and part of the Tetraxonida. <em>Fisheries, Ireland Scientific Investigations.</em> 1914(4): 1-43, pls I-V.
page(s): 11-13 [details]
additional source Stephens, J. (1917). Report on the sponges collected off the coasts of Ireland by the dredging expeditions of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Dublin Society. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> 34 (B): 1-16.
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source 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): 37 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1894). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. I.Tetractinellida. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 2:259-400, pls XI-XVI.
page(s): 375-380 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1913). Spongiaires provenant des campagnes scientifiques de la ‘Princesse Alice' dans les Mers du Nord (1898-1899 - 1906-1907). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I de Monaco.</em> 45: 1-67, pls I-V.
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI.
page(s): 129-130 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1934). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Première partie). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 650: 1-42.
page(s): 5-6 [details]
additional source Uriz, M.J. (1981). Estudio sistemático de las esponjas Astrophorida (Demospongia) de los fondos de pesca de arrastre, entre Tossa y Calella (Cataluña). <em>Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía.</em> 6(4):7-58.
page(s): 48-54 [details]
additional source Uriz, M.J.; Rosell, D. (1990). Sponges from bathyal depths (1000-1750 m) in the western Mediterranean Sea. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 24 (2): 373-391. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939000770281
page(s): 377 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vacelet, J. (1969). Eponges de la Roche du Large et de l'étage bathyal de Méditerranée (Récoltes de la soucoupe plongeante Cousteau et dragages). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 59(2): 145-219, pls I-IV.
page(s): 167 [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]
additional source Voultsiadou, E. (2005). Sponge diversity in the Aegean Sea: Check list and new information. <em>Italian Zoology.</em> 72 (1): 53-64., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250000509356653
page(s): 55 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Clavellomorpha minima Hansen, 1885) Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. <em>Zoology.</em> 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map.
page(s): 19 [details]
original description (of Stelletta profunditatis Schmidt, 1880) Schmidt, O. (1880). Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Heft II. Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Abtheilung III. Tetractinelliden. Monactinelliden und Anhang. Nachträge zu Abtheilung I (Lithistiden). Pp. 33-90, pls V-X. <i>In</i>: Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake'. (Gustav Fischer:Jena).
page(s): 70 [details]
original description (of Wyvillethomsonia wallichii Wright, 1870) Wright, E.P. (1870). Notes on Sponges. 1, On <i>Hyalonema mirabilis</i>,Gray. 2, <i>Aphrocallistes Bocagei</i> sp. nov. 3, On a new Genus and Species of Deep Sea Sponge. <em>Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.</em> 10:1-9, pls I-III., available online at https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.s2-10.37.1
page(s): 8-9 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Maldonado, M. (2002). Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875. Pp.141-162. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+xvliii, ISBN 0-306-47260-0., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_15 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Maldonado, M. (2002[2004]). Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875. Pp.141-162. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
additional source Arnesen, E. (1920 [1932]). Spongia. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition, 1910.</em> 3 (II): 1-29.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Babić, K. (1917). Zur Kenntnis der Theneen. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere.</em> 40: 389-408, pls 16–18. [details]
additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 65 [details] Available for editors
additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1994). Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d'Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 160: 1-174., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MNHN_MMNHN_S000_1994_T160_N000_1
page(s): 51-52; fig 28; note: quite abundant species in all areas of ibero-morrocan gulf & Alboran sea [details] Available for editors
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1930.tb00989.x
page(s): 488 [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1931). The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. <em>Tromsø Museum Skrifter.</em> 1 (13): 1-8.
page(s): 2 [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. <em>Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen).</em> 4: 111-147.
page(s): 142 [details] Available for editors
additional source Burton, M. (1959). Sponges. <em>In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition 1933-34. 10(5). British Museum (Natural History): London.</em> Pp. 151-281., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49512735
page(s): 189-191; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Burton, M. (1959). Spongia. Pp. 1-71. <i>In</i>: Fridriksson, A. & Tuxen, S.L.(Eds), The Zoology of Iceland. 2(3-4). Ejnar Munksgaard: Copenhagen& Reykjavik.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2012). A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3253: 1-52., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03253p053.pdf [details]
additional source Díaz, J.A.; Ordines, F.; Massutí, E.; Cárdenas, P. (2024). From caves to seamounts: the hidden diversity of tetractinellid sponges from the Balearic Islands, with the description of eight new species. <em>PeerJ.</em> 12., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16584
page(s): 133 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fourt, M.; Goujard, A.; Pérez, T.; Chevaldonné, P. (2017). Guide de la faune profonde de la mer Méditerranée. Explorations des roches et des canyons sous-marins des côtes françaises. <em>Patrimoines naturels. Publications scientifiques du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris.</em> 75: 1-184. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 27 [details] Available for editors
additional source Gamulin-Brida, H. (1969). A contribution to the study of the tetractinellid sponge <i>Thenea muricata</i> with special consideration of its importance in the bionomics of the Adriatic sea. <em>Thalassia Jugoslavica.</em> 5: 89-95. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. <em>Zoology.</em> 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map.
page(s): 18 [details]
additional source Kent, W. Saville. (1870). On the 'Hexactinellidae' or Hexradiate Spiculed Silicious Sponges taken in the 'Norna' Expedition off the coast of Spain and Portugal. With Description of New Species, and Revision of the Order. <em>Monthly Microscopical Journal 4.</em> 241-252, pls LXIII-LXV., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1870.tb01123.x
page(s): 214 [details]
additional source Levinsen, G.M.R. (1887). Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). <em>Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte.</em> 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI. [details]
additional source Pansini, M. (1987). Report on a collection of Demospongiae from soft bottoms of the Eastern Adriatic Sea. <i>In</i>: Jones WC (ed) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. <em>Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station.</em> 1, 41-53.
page(s): 43 [details]
additional source Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 12 (4): 317-329., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.1991.tb00261.x
page(s): 321 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1972 [1970]). Report on a collection of sponges from the Bay of Naples. 1. Sclerospongiae, Lithistida, Tetractinellida, Epipolasida. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 38 (2): 328-354.
page(s): 348-349 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 474 [details] Available for editors
additional source Rezvoi, P. (1924). Contribution towards the sponge fauna of the Kara and Barents Seas (In Russian with English summary). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Lesshaft.</em> 8: 241-250.
page(s): 241 [details] Available for editors
additional source Rezvoi, P. (1928). Contribution to the fauna of Porifera in the Barents Sea. <em>Transactions of the Institute for the scientific exploration of the North.</em> 37: 67-95 (in Russian with English summary).
page(s): 75-76 [details]
additional source Rützler, K. (1966). Die Poriferen einer sorrentiner Höhle. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Tyrrhenia-Expedition 1952. Teil. XVIII. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 176 (5), 303-319.
page(s): 312 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
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additional source Vacelet, J. (1969). Eponges de la Roche du Large et de l'étage bathyal de Méditerranée (Récoltes de la soucoupe plongeante Cousteau et dragages). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 59(2): 145-219, pls I-IV.
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | mulberry horny sponge | [details] |
| French | éponge piquante | [details] |
| Turkish | sunger | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Wyvillethomsonia wallichii Wright, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Clavellomorpha minima Hansen, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thenea muricata)
To GenBank (43 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (10 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 006601.PR)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Wyvillethomsonia wallichii Wright, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Clavellomorpha minima Hansen, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thenea muricata)
To GenBank (43 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (10 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 006601.PR)
To ITIS
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