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Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833)

133911  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133911)

accepted
Species
Aplysina carnosa Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Verongia aerophoba (Nardo, 1833) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Aplysia aerophoba Nardo, 1833) Nardo, G.D. (1833). Auszug aus einem neuen System der Spongiarien,wonach bereits die Aufstellung in der Universitäts-Sammlung zu Padua gemacht ist. Pp. 519-523. In: Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung Coll. (Oken: Jena).
page(s): 522 [details] OpenAccess publication
Type locality contained in Adriatic Sea  
type locality contained in Adriatic Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Taxonomy Originally named Aplysia aerophoba.  
Taxonomy Originally named Aplysia aerophoba[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. Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=133911 on 2025-04-09
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Nomenclature

original description (of Aplysina carnosa Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 26; pl III 3 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Aplysia aerophoba Nardo, 1833) Nardo, G.D. (1833). Auszug aus einem neuen System der Spongiarien,wonach bereits die Aufstellung in der Universitäts-Sammlung zu Padua gemacht ist. Pp. 519-523. In: Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung Coll. (Oken: Jena).
page(s): 522 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002). Family Aplysinidae Carter, 1875, pp. 1082-1085 In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY 1708+ XVLIII. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002[2004]). Family Aplysinidae Carter, 1875, pp. 1082-1085 in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY 1708+ XVLIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Nardo, G. D. (1834). De Spongiis. Isis (Oken). 714-716. [details] OpenAccess publication

redescription Schulze, F.E. (1878). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Vierte Mittheilung. Die Familie der Aplysinidae. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 30: 379-420, plsXXI-XXIV.
page(s): 386-404 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

additional source Roveta, C.; Marrocco, T.; Calcinai, B.; Pulido Mantas, T.; Pica, D.; Valisano, L.; Puce, S. (2022). Unravelling the sponge diversity of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). The European Zoological Journal. 89(1): 310-323., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2042406
page(s): 314 [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. AACL Bioflux. 15 (1): 305-313.
page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology. 12 (4): 317-329.
page(s): 320 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Topsent, E. (1889). Quelques spongiaires du Banc de Campêche et de la Pointe-à-Pître. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 2: 30-52.
page(s): 46; note: Misapplication [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Topsent, E. (1891). Voyage de la Goëlette ‘Melita' aux Canaries et au Sénégal, 1889-1890. Spongiaires. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France. 4: 11-15, pl. II.
page(s): 12 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Topsent, E. (1934). Etude d'Eponges littorales du Golfe de Gabès. Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche de Castiglione. 1932(2):71-102.
page(s): 5-6 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. (1943). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 854: 1-12.
page(s): 10 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. 159: 205-219. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Lopes, M.T. (1985). Les Démosponges littorales de l'Archipel des Açores. Annales de l'Institut océanographique. 61(2): 149-225.
page(s): 207 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen). 4: 111-147.
page(s): 139 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Hyatt, A. (1875). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part I. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 399-408, pl. XIII.
page(s): 406 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source 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): 408-411 [details] 

additional source Lévi, C. (1960). Spongiaires des côtes occidentales africaines. Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles). 22 (3): 743-769. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Nardo, G.D. (1847). Prospetto della fauna marina volgare del Veneto estuario con cenni sulle principali specie commestibili dell'Adriatico, sulle venete pesche, sulle valli, ecc. Pp. 113-156 (1-45 in reprint). In: Venezia e le sue Lagune. Volume Secundo. G. Antonelli: Venezia. [According to Carlo Froglia, the Prospetto and the Sinonimia were published simultaneously; the Sinonimia is here considered to have priority.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53300268 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 25; pl III 2 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V.
page(s): 5 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Corriero, G. (1989). The sponge fauna from the Stagnone di Marsala (Sicily): taxonomic and ecological observations. Bolletino Museo Istituto Biologia Università Genova. 53: 101-113.
page(s): 103 & 110 [details] 

additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô. 30, 55-78.
page(s): 78 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Topsent, E. (1894). Éponges du Golfe de Gabès. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France,. 7: 37-44, pl. I.
page(s): 39 & 44 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias. 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. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin. 69, 57-72.
page(s): 65-66 [details] 

additional source Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of Kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). ICES Journal of Marine Science. 60, 402-10.
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Topaloğlu, B. (2001). A preliminary study on sponge fauna of the north shore of Gökçeada Island. In: Öztürk B, Aysel V, editors. Ulusal Ege Adaları 2001. Toplantısı Bildiriler Kitabı. İstanbul, Turkey: Türk Deniz Araştırmaları Vakfı, . pp. 97–102 (in Turkish).
page(s): 100 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Corriero, G.; Pansini, M.; Sarà, M. (1984). Sui Poriferi della insenatura della Strea a Porto Cesareo (Lecce). Thalassia Salentina. 14, 1-10.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2012). Marine Caves of the Mediterranean Sea: A Sponge Biodiversity Reservoir within a Biodiversity Hotspot. PLoS ONE. 7(7): e39873., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039873
page(s): Table S1; note: note: could be Aplysina cavernicola [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Lopes, M.T. (1995). Littoral sponges from Selvagem Islands. Boletim do Museu municipal do Funchal. sup 4, 387-394.
page(s): 390 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Augier, H. (1985). Première contribution à l'étude et à la cartographie des biocénoses marines benthiques de l'île de Madère. Boletim do Museu municipal do Funchal. 97, 86-129.
page(s): 101 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2016). Sponge diversity gradients in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean. In: Schönberg C.H.L., Fromont J., Hooper J.N.A., Sorokin S., Zhang W. & de Voogd N (eds) New Frontiers in Sponge Science. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 96: 407-416., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315415000697
page(s): 5; note: could be Aplysina cavernicola [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Costa, G.; Giussani, V.; Kletou, D.; Kleitou, P.; Pansini, M.; Setti, A.; Pronzato, R.; Bertolino, M. (2018). A first preliminary study of the shallow water sponge fauna from Cyprus Island (Eastern Mediterranean). Zootaxa. 4450(5): 594., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.7
page(s): 595 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Naveiro Millán, A. (2002). Poríferos de la costa da Arrábida (Portugal). Clase Demospongiae. Tesina Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 165 pp.
page(s): 147-148.Figura 69; note: Misspelled Aplysina aerophoba Schmidt, 1862 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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. Marine Biodiversity. 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2156 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 131: 75-86., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.11.003
page(s): Supplementary data [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. Studia Marina. 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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Taxonomy Originally named Aplysia aerophoba[details]
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LanguageName 
Catalan esponja d'oraplisina  [details]
Czech houba komínová  [details]
English yellow tube spongeaureate sponge  [details]
French vérongia  [details]
German Goldschwammgoldener ZapfenschwammFarbwechselnder Zylinderschwamm  [details]
Italian verongia  [details]
Portuguese esponja amarela  [details]
Spanish esponja de tubo amarilla  [details]


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