Deep-Sea taxon details
Forcepia (Forcepia) fabricans (Schmidt, 1874)
168858 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168858)
accepted
Species
Forcipina bulbosa Vosmaer, 1885 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Schmidt, O. (1874). Kieselspongien. <em>Die Zweite deutsche Nordpolfahrt in 1869-70 (‘Germania' Expedition).</em> 2 (13): 429-433.
page(s): 433 [details]
page(s): 433 [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. Forcepia (Forcepia) fabricans (Schmidt, 1874). 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=168858 on 2026-09-06
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Forcepia (Forcepia) fabricans (Schmidt, 1874). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=168858 on 2026-09-06
original description
(of ) Schmidt, O. (1874). Kieselspongien. <em>Die Zweite deutsche Nordpolfahrt in 1869-70 (‘Germania' Expedition).</em> 2 (13): 429-433.
page(s): 433 [details]
original description (of Forcipina bulbosa Vosmaer, 1885) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/26660644-01201001
page(s): 26-27 [details]
additional source Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. <em>Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9.</em> 1-102.
page(s): 46 [details] Available for editors
additional source Tompkins, G.; Baker, E.; Anstey, L.; Walkusz, W.; Siferd, T.; Kenchington, E. (2017). Sponges from the 2010-2014 Paamiut Multispecies Trawl Surveys, Eastern Arctic and Subarctic: Class Demospongiae, Subclass Heteroscleromorpha, Order Poecilosclerida, Family Coelosphaeridae, Genera <i>Forcepia</i> and <i>Lissodendoryx</i>. <em>Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 3224: v + 129.
page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 433 [details]
original description (of Forcipina bulbosa Vosmaer, 1885) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/26660644-01201001
page(s): 26-27 [details]
additional source Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. <em>Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9.</em> 1-102.
page(s): 46 [details] Available for editors
additional source Tompkins, G.; Baker, E.; Anstey, L.; Walkusz, W.; Siferd, T.; Kenchington, E. (2017). Sponges from the 2010-2014 Paamiut Multispecies Trawl Surveys, Eastern Arctic and Subarctic: Class Demospongiae, Subclass Heteroscleromorpha, Order Poecilosclerida, Family Coelosphaeridae, Genera <i>Forcepia</i> and <i>Lissodendoryx</i>. <em>Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 3224: v + 129.
page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
