World Porifera Database - Species - Spongia (Spongia) obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Porifera taxon details

Spongia (Spongia) obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Spongia discus lectotype specimen

AphiaID

165217 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165217)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759

Original name

Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Synonymised names

Spongia discus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted

Spongia discus var. anomala Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Spongia discus var. auklinensis Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Spongia discus var. ligneaformis Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)

Spongia officinalis obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (status change)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 38-39; pl IV fig 5 [details]

Type data

Lectotype (of Spongia discus Duchassaing & Michelotti,...

Lectotype (of Spongia discus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) ZMA Por. 02077, geounit Greater Antilles [details]

Lectotype (of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) ZMA Por. 02099, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]

Lectotype ZMA Por. 02099, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. Spongia (Spongia) obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=165217 on 2025-12-11

Taxonomic edit history

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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

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2010-05-19 10:23:56Z

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2016-12-16 20:19:49Z

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Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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original description (of Spongia discus var. anomala Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 514 [details]

original description (of Spongia discus var. auklinensis Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 515 [details]

original description (of Spongia discus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 37 [details]

original description (of Spongia discus var. ligneaformis Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 515 [details]

original description (of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
page(s): 38-39; pl IV fig 5 [details]

additional source (of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication. 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
note: This is a misapplication. It concerns Spongia (Spongia) tubulifera. [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Laubenfels, M.W. de; Storr, J. F. (1958). The taxonomy of American commercial sponges. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean. 8(2): 99-117.
page(s): 103-105; fig 5 [details]

additional source (of Spongia discus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 514 [details]

additional source (of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 9 (21): 189-205. [details]

additional source (of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam. 31: 1-39.
page(s): 22 [details]

additional source (of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia officinalis obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 3: 1-217.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Spongia officinalis obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1949). Sponges of the western Bahamas. American Museum Novitates. 1431: 1-25.
page(s): 4-5 [details]

additional source (of Spongia officinalis obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1950). The Porifera of the Bermuda archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 27(1): 1-154.
page(s): 5-7; note: Misapplication [details]

additional source (of Spongia discus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 192 [details]

redescription (of Spongia discus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1978). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 56 (179): 1–94. [details]

redescription (of Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1978). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 56 (179): 1–94.
page(s): 8-10; fig 1 pl I 1 [details]