World Porifera Database - Species - Polyfibrospongia Bowerbank, 1877

Porifera taxon details

Polyfibrospongia Bowerbank, 1877

AphiaID

184846 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:184846)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Polyfibrospongia flabellifera Bowerbank, 1877 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Phyllospongiinae Hyatt, 1877

Original name

Polyfibrospongia Bowerbank, 1877

Synonymised names

Hircinia (Polyfibrospongia) Bowerbank, 1877 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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Species Polyfibrospongia alcicornis (Esper, 1794)
Species Polyfibrospongia contorta (Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988)
Species Polyfibrospongia delicata (Pulitzer-Finali, 1982)
Species Polyfibrospongia flabellifera Bowerbank, 1877
Species Polyfibrospongia kulit Abdul Wahab & Fromont, 2020
Species Polyfibrospongia australis (Lendenfeld, 1888) accepted as Fasciospongia turgida (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species Polyfibrospongia dysodes de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Smenospongia dysodes (de Laubenfels, 1954) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia echina de Laubenfels, 1934 accepted as Smenospongia echina (de Laubenfels, 1934) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia maynardii (Hyatt, 1877) accepted as Smenospongia maynardii (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia nigra (Row, 1911) accepted as Hyrtios erectus (Keller, 1889)
Species Polyfibrospongia nuda Lévi, 1969 accepted as Smenospongia nuda (Lévi, 1969) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia sweeti Kirkpatrick, 1900 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) sweeti (Kirkpatrick, 1900) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia vesiculifera (Poléjaeff, 1884) accepted as Psammocinia vesiculifera (Poléjaeff, 1884)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1877: 456-464.
page(s): 456 [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. Polyfibrospongia Bowerbank, 1877. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=184846 on 2025-05-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-12-12 17:12:35Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-02-01 19:04:21Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2008-05-06 08:34:11Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2020-12-01 17:00:57Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

2020-12-17 10:11:20Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1877: 456-464.
page(s): 456 [details]

additional source 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): 62 [details] Available for editors

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status source Abdul Wahab, M.A.; Wilson, N.G.; Prada, D.; Gomez, O.; Fromont, J. (2020 [2021]). Molecular and morphological assessment of tropical sponges in the subfamily Phyllospongiinae, with the descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (1): 319–335., available online at http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B6B5E0EFA62B- 4DAF-ABDA-4CAC009EEB27
page(s): 20-21 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Hircinia (Polyfibrospongia) Bowerbank, 1877) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 587 [details]

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