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Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)

132335  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132335)

accepted
Species
Aplysina zetlandica (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Aplysinopsis schmidtii (Marenzeller, 1878) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Cacospongia schmidtii Marenzeller, 1878 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Euspongia brandtii Miklucho-Maclay, 1870 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Leiosella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Spongia brandtii (Miklucho-MacLay, 1870) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia carteri Burton, 1930 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spongia pulchella Sowerby, 1804 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Spongionella carteri (Burton, 1930) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongionella schmidtii (Marenzeller, 1878) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Spongionella zetlandica (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Verongia zetlandica Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Spongia pulchella Sowerby, 1804) Sowerby, J. (1806). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, Vol. 1-2 136 pp., 76 plates., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41623
page(s): 87; pl XLIII [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Type locality contained in Celtic Seas  
type locality contained in Celtic Seas [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Taxonomy A comparison of specimens from the Atlanto-mediteranean, Arctic and Pacific areas is needed. It seems doubtful that this...  
Taxonomy A comparison of specimens from the Atlanto-mediteranean, Arctic and Pacific areas is needed. It seems doubtful that this species could be cosmopolitan [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. (2024). World Porifera Database. Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=132335 on 2024-03-19
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original description  (of Verongia zetlandica Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 380-381 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spongia carteri Burton, 1930) Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II.
page(s): 510 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Cacospongia schmidtii Marenzeller, 1878) Marenzeller, E. von. (1878). Die Coelenteraten, Echinodermen und Würmer der K.K. Österreichisch-Ungarischen Nordpol-Expedition. <em>Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Wien.</em> 35: 357-398, plates I-IV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7125068
page(s): 362-363 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spongia pulchella Sowerby, 1804) Sowerby, J. (1806). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, Vol. 1-2 136 pp., 76 plates., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41623
page(s): 87; pl XLIII [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Euspongia brandtii Miklucho-Maclay, 1870) Miklucho-Maclay, N. N. (1870). Uber einige Schwämme des nördlichen Stillen Oceans und des Eismeeres, welche im Zoologischen Museum der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in St. Petersburg aufgestellt sind. Ein Beitrag zur Morphologie und Verbreitung der Spongien. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg.</em> 15 (3): 1-24.
page(s): 15-16 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

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]  OpenAccess publication 

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): 16-17 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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.
page(s): 204 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Van Beveren, M. (1982). Les Démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. <em>Comité national français des recherches antarctiques.</em> 52: 1-175.
page(s): 121-122; note: Misapplication [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 359-360 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 167-168, Pl LXV 5-8; note: illustration of the type specimen [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Fristedt, K. (1885). Bidrag till Kännedomen om de vid Sveriges vestra Kust lefvande Spongiae. <em>Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar.</em> 21: 1-56, pls I-IV.
page(s): 148-149 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 89-90 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Pansini, M. (1987). Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. <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, 149-185. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 183 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 728 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1981 [1980]). The Keratosa in a collection of Mediterranean sponges mainly from the Italian coasts. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 83: 127-158.
page(s): 133 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. (1943). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 854: 1-12.
page(s): 8 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Vacelet, J. (1959). Répartition générale des éponges et systématique des éponges cornées de la région de Marseille et de quelques stations méditerranéennes. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 16 (26): 39-101, pls 1-3.
page(s): 72 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Vacelet, J. (1969). Eponges de la Roche du Large et de l'étage bathyal de Méditerranée (Récoltes de la soucoupe plongeante Cousteau et dragages). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 59(2): 145-219, pls I-IV.
page(s): 216 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Carballo, J.L.; Garcia-Gómez, J.C. (1994). Esponjas del Estrecho de Gibraltar y áreas próximas, con nuevas aportaciones para la fauna Iberica [Porifera from the Straits of Gibraltar and nearby areas, new species of the Iberian fauna]. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 35(2): 193-211. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 196 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

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.
page(s): 20-21 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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  PDF available [request] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 33-34 & 56; fig 6C [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Bibiloni, M-A; Gili,J-M. (1982). Primera aportación al conocimiento de las cuevas de la Isla de Mallorca. <em>Oecologia aquatica.</em> 6: 227-234.
page(s): 232 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Koukouras, A. (1993). Contribution to the knowledge of Keratose sponges (Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, Verongida: Demospongiae, Porifera) of the Aegean Sea. <em>Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin.</em> 69, 57-72.
page(s): 64-65 [details]   

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): 184 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2015). Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95(7), 1475-1516., available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9887026&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0025315415000983
page(s): 1509-1510 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

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): 1036-1038; Lám. 136 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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): 131-132 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Krikech, I.; Le Pennec, G.; Ezziyyani, M. (2022). Preliminary study of the shallow water sponges (Demospongiae) from the north-central Moroccan Mediterranean coast. <em>AACL Bioflux.</em> 15 (1): 305-313.
page(s): Table 2; note: The shallow-water occurrence and lack of description make this record uncertain. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record  (of Spongia pulchella Sowerby, 1804) 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]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record  (of Spongia officinalis var. carteri (Burton, 1930)) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 9 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia pulchella Sowerby, 1804) Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761
page(s): 109 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Verongia zetlandica Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 177-178, Pl. LXX 9-11 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongia carteri Burton, 1930) Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. <em>Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen).</em> 4: 111-147.
page(s): 137 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia carteri Burton, 1930) Alander, H. (1935). Additions to the Swedish sponge fauna. <i>Arkiv för Zoologi 28B(5)</i>: 1-6 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 5 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source  (of Spongionella carteri (Burton, 1930)) Koltun, V.M. (1959 [1971]). [Siliceous horny sponges of the northern and fareastern seas of the U.S.S.R.] [translation in English by Fisheries Research Board of Canada Translation Series No. 1842]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim muzeem Akademii nauk.</em> 67: 1-365.
page(s): 272-273 of the translation [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Cacospongia schmidtii Marenzeller, 1878) Burton, M. (1935). Some sponges from the Okhotsk Sea and the Sea of Japan. <em>Exploration des Mers de l'URSS.</em> 22: 61-79. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Spongia pulchella Sowerby, 1804) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 524 [details]   

additional source  (of Spongia carteri Burton, 1930) 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): 16 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Aplysina zetlandica (Bowerbank, 1866)) 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): 403-404 [details]   

additional source  (of Euspongia brandtii Miklucho-Maclay, 1870) Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. <em>In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898.</em> 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Leiosella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)) Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. <em>In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898.</em> 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena).
page(s): 995 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source  (of Leiosella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)) 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): 211 [details]   

additional source  (of Spongionella zetlandica (Bowerbank, 1866)) 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]  OpenAccess publication 

source of synonymy  (of Spongia brandtii (Miklucho-MacLay, 1870)) 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 [details]   

new combination reference  (of Aplysina zetlandica (Bowerbank, 1866)) Arndt, W. (1935). Porifera. <i>In</i>: Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. <em>Leipzig.</em> 3a(27): 1-140. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
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Unknown type MNHN DT 2794 [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy A comparison of specimens from the Atlanto-mediteranean, Arctic and Pacific areas is needed. It seems doubtful that this species could be cosmopolitan [details]
LanguageName 
English gorgeous horny sponge  [details]
French éponge admirable  [details]


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