MSBIAS taxon details
Oscarella lobularis (Schmidt, 1862)
133928 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133928)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 80 [details]
page(s): 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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Oscarella lobularis (Schmidt, 1862). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=133928 on 2026-06-07
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Oscarella lobularis (Schmidt, 1862). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=133928 on 2026-06-07
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(of ) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 80 [details]
basis of record Boury-Esnault, N.; Solé-Cava, A.M.; Thorpe, J.P. (1992). Genetic and cytological divergence between colour morphs of the Mediterranean sponge <i>Oscarella lobularis</i> Schmidt (Porifera, Demospongiae, Oscarellidae). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 26: 271-284., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939200770131
page(s): 275-277 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Muricy, G.; Diaz, M.C. (2002). Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905. Family Plakinidae Schulze, 1880. pp. 71-82. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002) <em>Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges</em>(2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY,1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_6 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Topsent, E. (1895). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. II.Carnosa. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 3: 493-590, pls XXI-XXII.
page(s): 561-568 [details]
basis of record Muricy, G.; Diaz, M.C. (2002 [2004]). Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905. Family Plakinidae Schulze, 1880. Pp. 71-82. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds) <em>Systema Porifera - a guide to the classification of sponges</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
additional source Topsent, E. (1917). Spongiaires. Pp. 1-88, pls 1-6. <em>In: Joubin, L. (Ed.), Deuxième Expédition Antarctique Française (1908-1910) Commandée par le Dr. Jean Charcot.</em> Sciences Physiques: Documents Scientifiques (Paris). 4. (Masson & Cie: Paris).
page(s): 32; note: misapplication [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): 629 [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): 8 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. (1976). Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 49:1-116, pls I-X.
page(s): 12; note: Misapplication: see Oscarella ochreacea [details] Available for editors
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. <em>Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.</em> 159: 205-219.
page(s): 210; note: not primary source, not collected in this area by the author [details] Available for editors
additional source Loukaci, A.; Muricy, G.; Brouard, J.-P.; Guyot, M.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2004). Chemical divergence between two sibling species of <i>Oscarella</i> (Porifera) from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.</em> 32: 893-899., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2004.02.012 [details] Available for editors
additional source Evcen, A.; Özalp, B. (2023). Marine invertebrate fauna (Porifera, Anthozoa) and biodiversity status on the historically important wreck sites of HMS Majestic and Helles Barges (Northern Aegean coast of Türkiye). pp. 56-72 <i>in</i> Öz, M.İ. (Ed.) 2023. Shipwrecks of the Gallipoli Campaign and Protection of Marine Biodiversity. Turkish Marine Research Foundation (TUDAV) Publication no: 69, İstanbul, Türkiye.
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additional source Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp. , available online at http://hal-02490465
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additional source Rizgalla, J. (2026). Marine benthic species distributed along the western coast of Libya. <em>J. Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment.</em> 32 (1): 1-31.
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additional source Corriero, G. (1989). The sponge fauna from the Stagnone di Marsala (Sicily): taxonomic and ecological observations. <em>Bolletino Museo Istituto Biologia Università Genova.</em> 53: 101-113.
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additional source Burton, M. (1933). Report on a small collection of sponges from Stil Bay, S. Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 10 (11): 235-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933308673651
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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.
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additional source Laubier, L. (1966). Le coralligène des Albères. Monographie biocénotique. The coralligenous of the Albères. Biocenotic monograph.]. <em>Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco, Nouvelle Série.</em> 43:137-316, figs. 1-12, plates I-VI, maps 1-2. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 204 [details] Available for editors
additional source Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46.
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additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1918). Esponjas del litoral de Asturias. <em>Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Serie Zoologia.</em> 36: 1-39.
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additional source Labate, M.; Arena, P. (1964). La fauna dei Poriferi nei laghi di Ganzirri e Faro (Messina). <em>Archivo Zoologico Italiano.</em> 49: 249-280.
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additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Harmelin, J.-G.; Ledoyer, M.; Saldanha, L.; Zibrowius, H. (2001 [2005]). Peuplement benthique des grottes sous-marines de Sagres (Portugal, Atlantique nord-oriental). <i>In</i>: Biscoito, M., A.J. Almeida & P. Ré (Eds). A Tribute to Luiz Saldanha. <em>Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal.</em> Sup. 6: 15-38.
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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
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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
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additional source Ereskovsky, A.V.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2002). Cleavage pattern in <i>Oscarella</i> species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Homoscleromorpha): transmission of maternal cells and symbiotic bacteria. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 36: 1761-1775., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930110069050 [details]
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page(s): 102; note: as no description is given it is difficult to be sure if it is Oscarella lobularis or its sister-species Oscarella tuberculata [details] Available for editors
additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Lavrov, D.V.; Ruiz, C.A.; Pérez, T. (2013). The Integrative Taxonomic Approach Applied to Porifera: A Case Study of the Homoscleromorpha. <em>Integrative and Comparative Biology.</em> 53(3): 416-427., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/ict042 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bibiloni, M-A. (1981). Estudi faunistic del litoral de Blanes (Girona). II Sistemàtica d'esponges. <em>Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural.</em> 47: 5-59.
page(s): 14-15; note: Misapplication: from the description the specimen belongs clearly to Oscarella tuberculata [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.
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additional source Corriero, G.; Abbiati, M.; Santangelo, G. (1997). Sponges inhabiting a Mediteranean red coral population. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 18 (2), 147-155., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.1997.tb00433.x
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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.
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additional source Vacelet, J. (1990). Les spongiaires. <i>in</i> Le Monde Marin. (ed. Claude Bouchon) pp 16-33. <em>La Grande Encyclopédie de la Caraïbe.</em> Editions Caraïbes, Pointe à Pitre.
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additional source Marra, M.V.; Bertolino, M.; Pansini, M.; Giacobbe, S.; Manconi, R.; Pronzato, R. (2016). Long-term turnover of the sponge fauna in Faro Lake (North-East Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). <em>Italian Journal of Zoology.</em> 1-10., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2016.1251981
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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.
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additional source Castric-Fey, A. (1996). Richesse et biodiversité en mer mégatidale: communautés sublittorales rocheuses de la région de Trébeurden-Ploumanac'h (Nord Bretagne France). <em>Cahiers de Biologie marine.</em> 37, 7-31.
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additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
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additional source Topsent, E. (1944). <i>Halisarca</i> Dujardin et <i>Oscarella</i> Vosmaer. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique.</em> 875: 1-4. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Lopes, M.T. (1985). Les Démosponges littorales de l'Archipel des Açores. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 61(2): 149-225.
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additional source Lévi, C. (1952). Spongiaires de la côte du Sénégal. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles).</em> 14 (1): 34-59.
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additional source Lévi, C. (1957). Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. <em>Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel.</em> 6 B(3-4): 201-212.
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additional source Lévi, C. (1958). Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso'.Campagne 1951-1952 en Mer Rouge (suite). 11. Spongiaires de Mer Rouge recueillis par la ‘Calypso' (1951-1952). <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 34(3): 3-46.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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additional source Stephens, J. (1912). A Biological Survey of Clare Island in the County of Mayo, Ireland and the Adjoining District. Marine Porifera. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> 31 (Section 3, Part 59): 1-42.
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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.
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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
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biology source Vernale, A.; Prünster, M.M.; Marchianò, F.; Debost, H.; Brouilly, N.; Rocher, C.; Massey-Harroche, D.; Renard, E.; Le Bivic, A.; Habermann, B.H.; Borchiellini, C. (2021). Evolution of mechanisms controlling epithelial morphogenesis across animals: new insights from dissociation-reaggregation experiments in the sponge <i>Oscarella lobularis</i>. <em>BMC Ecology and Evolution.</em> 21(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01866-x [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Boury-Esnault, N.; Solé-Cava, A.M.; Thorpe, J.P. (1992). Genetic and cytological divergence between colour morphs of the Mediterranean sponge <i>Oscarella lobularis</i> Schmidt (Porifera, Demospongiae, Oscarellidae). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 26: 271-284., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939200770131
page(s): 275-277 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Muricy, G.; Diaz, M.C. (2002). Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905. Family Plakinidae Schulze, 1880. pp. 71-82. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002) <em>Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges</em>(2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY,1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_6 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Topsent, E. (1895). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. II.Carnosa. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 3: 493-590, pls XXI-XXII.
page(s): 561-568 [details]
basis of record Muricy, G.; Diaz, M.C. (2002 [2004]). Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905. Family Plakinidae Schulze, 1880. Pp. 71-82. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds) <em>Systema Porifera - a guide to the classification of sponges</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
additional source Topsent, E. (1917). Spongiaires. Pp. 1-88, pls 1-6. <em>In: Joubin, L. (Ed.), Deuxième Expédition Antarctique Française (1908-1910) Commandée par le Dr. Jean Charcot.</em> Sciences Physiques: Documents Scientifiques (Paris). 4. (Masson & Cie: Paris).
page(s): 32; note: misapplication [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): 629 [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): 8 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. (1976). Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 49:1-116, pls I-X.
page(s): 12; note: Misapplication: see Oscarella ochreacea [details] Available for editors
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. <em>Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.</em> 159: 205-219.
page(s): 210; note: not primary source, not collected in this area by the author [details] Available for editors
additional source Loukaci, A.; Muricy, G.; Brouard, J.-P.; Guyot, M.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2004). Chemical divergence between two sibling species of <i>Oscarella</i> (Porifera) from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.</em> 32: 893-899., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2004.02.012 [details] Available for editors
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| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | flesh sponge | [details] |
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (120 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oscarella lobularis)
To GenBank (2264 nucleotides; 112 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (7 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 002108.PR)
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (120 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oscarella lobularis)
To GenBank (2264 nucleotides; 112 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (7 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 002108.PR)
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