Deep-Sea name details
Prosuberites epiphytum sensu Topsent, 1900
134251 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134251)
unaccepted (junior synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Topsent, E. (1900). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III.Monaxonida (Hadromerina). <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 8: 1-331, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 179-184 [details]
page(s): 179-184 [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. Prosuberites epiphytum sensu Topsent, 1900. 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=134251 on 2026-09-06
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Prosuberites epiphytum sensu Topsent, 1900. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134251 on 2026-09-06
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Topsent, E. (1900). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III.Monaxonida (Hadromerina). <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 8: 1-331, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 179-184 [details]
additional source 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): 62-63 [details]
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): 77 [details] Available for editors
additional source Arndt, W. (1935). Porifera. <i>In</i>: Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. <em>Leipzig.</em> 3a(27): 1-140.
page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors
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): 9 [details] Available for editors
additional source Breton, G.; Girard, A.; Lagardère J.-P. (1995). Espèces animales benthiques des bassins du port du Havre (Normandie, France) rares, peu connues ou nouvelles pour la région. <em>Bulletin trimestriel de la Société Géolologique Normandie Amis Musée du Havre.</em> 82(3): 7-28.
page(s): 13, fig. 3 [details] Available for editors
additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Gristina, M.; Riggio, S.; Mercurio, M. (1997). Composizione tassonomica e distribuzione della fauna e Poriferi e Briozoi in una grotta semisommersa della riserva naturale marina "Isola di Ustica". <em>Biologia Marina Mediterranea.</em> 4 (1), 34-43.
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Ruggiero, D.; Pansini, M. (2000). The sponge community of a semi-submerged Mediterranean cave. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 21 (1), 85-96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0485.2000.00655.x
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors
additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] Available for editors
additional source Duran, C.; Solorzano, M.R. 1982. Aportaciones al conocimiento del macrozoobenthos de la zona infralitoral rocosa de Galicia mediante la utilizacion de la escafandra autonoma: I. Demosponjas. Trabajos Compostelanos de Biologia 9: 49-67.
page(s): 52 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ginn, B.K.; Logan, A.; Thomas, M.L.H.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). <i>Hymedesmia canadensis</i> (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), a new species among new geographical records from the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 78: 1093-1100., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400044349 [details] Available for editors
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, 9 [details]
additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of Kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). <em>ICES Journal of Marine Science.</em> 60, 402-10., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s1054-3139(03)00012-2
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors
additional source Konnecker, G., 1973. Littoral and benthic investigations on the west coast of Ireland-I. (Section A: faunistic and ecological stucies). The sponge fauna of Kilkieran Bay and adjacent waters. Proc. roy. Irish. Acad., 73 (B): 451-472.
page(s): 455 [details]
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): 40-41 Figura 10 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 727 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1978). Report on a Collection of Sponges from the Bay of Naples. III Hadromerida, Axinellida, Poecilosclerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida. <em>Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell'Universitá di Genova.</em> 45: 7-89.
page(s): 26 [details]
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): 485 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sarà, M. (1958). Studio sui Poriferi di una grotta di marea del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Archivo Zoologico Italiano.</em> 43: 203-281, pls I-II.
page(s): 231, fig. 7 [details] Available for editors
additional source Saritas, M.Ü. (1973). Report on the Sponges (Porifera) occuring on <i>Posidonia oceanica</i> (L.) at the coast of Altinomuk, Edremit Bay (Aegean Sea). <em>Scientific reports of the Faculty of Science, Ege University.</em> 168, 1-21 (in Turkish). [details]
additional source Scalera-Liaci, L.; Sciscioli, M.; Fiordiponti, F. (1976). Distribuzione dei Poriferi del mar Piccolo di Taronto. <em>Oebalia.</em> 2, 3-19.
page(s): 18 [details] Available for editors
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): 359-361; Lám. 26 [details] Available for editors
additional source Topsent, E. (1904). Spongiaires des Açores. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 25: 1-280, pls 1-18., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40603003
page(s): 126 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 633 [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): 157 [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): 17 [details]
additional source Uriz, M.J. (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. <em>Monografías de Zoología Marina.</em> 3: 9-157.
page(s): 41, fig. 18 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vacelet, J. (1976). Inventaire des Spongiaires du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). <em>Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros.</em> 2, 167-186.
page(s): 175 [details] Available for editors
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): 266 [details]
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 Van Soest, R.W.M.; Guiterman, J.D.; Sayer, M. (1983). Sponges from Roaringwater Bay and Lough Ine. <em>Journal of Sherkin Island.</em> 1(2), 35-49.
page(s): 39 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Picton, B.E.; Morrow, C. (2000). Sponges of the North East Atlantic. <em>In: World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series, Windows/Mac version 1.0.</em> (ETI, University of Amsterdam:Amsterdam), available online at http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=sponges&id=104&menuentry=soorten., available online at http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=sponges&id=104&menuentry=soorten [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), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70892-3_15
page(s): 285 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Van Soest, R.W.M.; De Kluijver, M.J. (2003). <i>Protosuberites denhartogi</i> spec. nov., a new name for European<i> 'Prosuberites epiphytum'</i> (Demospongiae, Hadromerida). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 345: 401-407. [details]
page(s): 179-184 [details]
additional source 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): 62-63 [details]
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): 77 [details] Available for editors
additional source Arndt, W. (1935). Porifera. <i>In</i>: Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. <em>Leipzig.</em> 3a(27): 1-140.
page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors
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): 9 [details] Available for editors
additional source Breton, G.; Girard, A.; Lagardère J.-P. (1995). Espèces animales benthiques des bassins du port du Havre (Normandie, France) rares, peu connues ou nouvelles pour la région. <em>Bulletin trimestriel de la Société Géolologique Normandie Amis Musée du Havre.</em> 82(3): 7-28.
page(s): 13, fig. 3 [details] Available for editors
additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Gristina, M.; Riggio, S.; Mercurio, M. (1997). Composizione tassonomica e distribuzione della fauna e Poriferi e Briozoi in una grotta semisommersa della riserva naturale marina "Isola di Ustica". <em>Biologia Marina Mediterranea.</em> 4 (1), 34-43.
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Ruggiero, D.; Pansini, M. (2000). The sponge community of a semi-submerged Mediterranean cave. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 21 (1), 85-96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0485.2000.00655.x
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors
additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] Available for editors
additional source Duran, C.; Solorzano, M.R. 1982. Aportaciones al conocimiento del macrozoobenthos de la zona infralitoral rocosa de Galicia mediante la utilizacion de la escafandra autonoma: I. Demosponjas. Trabajos Compostelanos de Biologia 9: 49-67.
page(s): 52 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ginn, B.K.; Logan, A.; Thomas, M.L.H.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). <i>Hymedesmia canadensis</i> (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), a new species among new geographical records from the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 78: 1093-1100., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400044349 [details] Available for editors
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, 9 [details]
additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of Kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). <em>ICES Journal of Marine Science.</em> 60, 402-10., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s1054-3139(03)00012-2
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors
additional source Konnecker, G., 1973. Littoral and benthic investigations on the west coast of Ireland-I. (Section A: faunistic and ecological stucies). The sponge fauna of Kilkieran Bay and adjacent waters. Proc. roy. Irish. Acad., 73 (B): 451-472.
page(s): 455 [details]
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): 40-41 Figura 10 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 727 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1978). Report on a Collection of Sponges from the Bay of Naples. III Hadromerida, Axinellida, Poecilosclerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida. <em>Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell'Universitá di Genova.</em> 45: 7-89.
page(s): 26 [details]
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): 485 [details] Available for editors
additional source Sarà, M. (1958). Studio sui Poriferi di una grotta di marea del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Archivo Zoologico Italiano.</em> 43: 203-281, pls I-II.
page(s): 231, fig. 7 [details] Available for editors
additional source Saritas, M.Ü. (1973). Report on the Sponges (Porifera) occuring on <i>Posidonia oceanica</i> (L.) at the coast of Altinomuk, Edremit Bay (Aegean Sea). <em>Scientific reports of the Faculty of Science, Ege University.</em> 168, 1-21 (in Turkish). [details]
additional source Scalera-Liaci, L.; Sciscioli, M.; Fiordiponti, F. (1976). Distribuzione dei Poriferi del mar Piccolo di Taronto. <em>Oebalia.</em> 2, 3-19.
page(s): 18 [details] Available for editors
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): 359-361; Lám. 26 [details] Available for editors
additional source Topsent, E. (1904). Spongiaires des Açores. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 25: 1-280, pls 1-18., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40603003
page(s): 126 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 633 [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): 157 [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): 17 [details]
additional source Uriz, M.J. (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. <em>Monografías de Zoología Marina.</em> 3: 9-157.
page(s): 41, fig. 18 [details] Available for editors
additional source Vacelet, J. (1976). Inventaire des Spongiaires du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). <em>Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros.</em> 2, 167-186.
page(s): 175 [details] Available for editors
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): 266 [details]
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 Van Soest, R.W.M.; Guiterman, J.D.; Sayer, M. (1983). Sponges from Roaringwater Bay and Lough Ine. <em>Journal of Sherkin Island.</em> 1(2), 35-49.
page(s): 39 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Picton, B.E.; Morrow, C. (2000). Sponges of the North East Atlantic. <em>In: World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series, Windows/Mac version 1.0.</em> (ETI, University of Amsterdam:Amsterdam), available online at http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=sponges&id=104&menuentry=soorten., available online at http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=sponges&id=104&menuentry=soorten [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), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70892-3_15
page(s): 285 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Van Soest, R.W.M.; De Kluijver, M.J. (2003). <i>Protosuberites denhartogi</i> spec. nov., a new name for European<i> 'Prosuberites epiphytum'</i> (Demospongiae, Hadromerida). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.</em> 345: 401-407. [details]
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