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Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842)

134285  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134285)

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Species
Choanites ficus (Johnston, 1842) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Ficulina ficus (Johnston, 1842) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Halichondria farinaria Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Halichondria ficus Johnston, 1842 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Hymeniacidon ficus (Johnston, 1842) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

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(of Halichondria ficus Johnston, 1842) Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. <em>(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh).</em> i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35290582
page(s): 144-146 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Lectotype  (of Halichondria ficus Johnston, 1842) BMNH...  
Lectotype (of Halichondria ficus Johnston, 1842) BMNH 1847.9.7.51, geounit North Sea [details]
Taxonomy This is not Alcyonium ficus sensu Pallas, 1766 or Esper, 1794, as expressly stated by Johnston (1842: 144).  
Taxonomy This is not Alcyonium ficus sensu Pallas, 1766 or Esper, 1794, as expressly stated by Johnston (1842: 144). [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. Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134285 on 2024-10-06
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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original description  (of Halichondria ficus Johnston, 1842) Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. <em>(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh).</em> i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35290582
page(s): 144-146 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Halichondria farinaria 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): 269-271 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Suberitidae. Pp 227-244 <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). <i>Systema Porifera - a guide to the classification of the sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York: 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Suberitidae. Pp 227-244 <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). <i>Systema Porifera - a guide to the classification of the sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York: 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). <em>A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society.</em> 1-175.
page(s): 60-61 [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): 20-21 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Hanitsch, R. (1890). Third Report on the Porifera of the L.M.B.C.District. <em>Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society.</em> 4: 192-238, pls X-XV.
page(s): 216 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Hiscock, K.; Stone, S.M.K.; George, J.D. (1984). The marine fauna of Lundy. Porifera (sponges): a preliminary study. <em>Report Lundy Field Society.</em> 34: 16-35.
page(s): 20-21 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Tanita, S.; Hoshino, T. (1989). The Demospongiae of Sagami Bay. <em>Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household: Japan.</em> i-xiii, 1-197 [in English], pls 1-19; 1-166 [in Japanese], 1 map.
page(s): 59; note: Missapplication (probably for Suberites placenta[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Topsent, E. (1891). Voyage de la Goëlette ‘Melita' aux Canaries et au Sénégal, 1889-1890. Spongiaires. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 4: 11-15, pl. II.
page(s): 14-15 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Uriz, M.J. (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. <em>Monografías de Zoología Marina.</em> 3: 9-157.
page(s): 37; note: Misapplication [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Distribution of sponges on the Mauritanian continental shelf. <i>In</i>:Wolff,W.J., van der Land, J., Nienhuis,P.H. & de Wilde, P.A.W.J. (Eds), Ecological Studies in the Coastal Waters of Mauritania. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 258: 95-106. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Suberitidae (Demospongiae, Hadromerida) from the North Aegean Sea. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 43 (11): 176-186. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 179 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]   

additional source Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J. (2005). Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. <em>African Natural History.</em> 1: 1-96.
page(s): 28; note: Misapplication: This record concerns Suberites dandelenae Samaai & Maduray, 2017. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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.
note: misapplication, not primary source [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Topsent, E. (1891). Spongaires des côtes océaniques de France. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 6: 125-129.
page(s): 127 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Hanitsch, R. (1891). Notes on some sponges collected by Professor Herdman off the west coast of Ireland from the 'Argo'. <em>Transactions of the Biological Society of Liverpool.</em> 5: 213-222.
page(s): 219 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Kim, H.S.; Rho, B.J.; Sim, C.J. 1968. Marine sponges in South Korea (1). Korean Journal of Zoology 11 (2): 37-47.
page(s): 40; note: Misapplication. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Stone, S.M.: Boardley. E.; Gill, M. (1987). Field characteristics of some conspicuous sublittoral sponges from Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland. <i>In</i>: Jones WC (ed) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. <em>Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station.</em> 1: 130-140. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Cuénot, L. 1936. Commensalisme des pontes de Céphalopodes avec des éponges et des cnidaires. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique (2) 3: 37-40. [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 Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 12 (4): 317-329.
page(s): 321 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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
page(s): 25 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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 Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Uriz, M.J. (1983). Monografía I. Contribución a la fauna de esponjas (Demospongia) de Cataluña. <em>Anales de la Sección Ciencias del Colegio Universitario de Gerona.</em> 7: 1-220.
page(s): 80-92 [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). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 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] 

redescription Samaai, T.; Maduray, S.; Janson, L.; Gibbons, M.J.; Ngwakum, B.; Teske, P.R. (2017). A new species of habitat–forming <i>Suberites</i> (Porifera, Demospongiae, Suberitida) in the Benguela upwelling region (South Africa). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4254 (1): 49–81., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4254.1.3
page(s): 69-70 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

biology source Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Erpenbeck, D.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Maggs, C.; Allcock, A. (2012). Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 62(1): 174-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.016
page(s): 177 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Lectotype (of Halichondria ficus Johnston, 1842) BMNH 1847.9.7.51, geounit North Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Original description Johnston's Halichondria ficus is the first recognizable description and depiction of the sponge generally considered as Suberites ficus in the recent literature. [details]

Reproduction Indirect Development, Oviparous species. Description of ovogenesis from pp. 94-97. Spawning of ovocytes (40-50µm in diameter) occurs in October.  [details]

Taxonomy This is not Alcyonium ficus sensu Pallas, 1766 or Esper, 1794, as expressly stated by Johnston (1842: 144). [details]
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LanguageName 
Dutch vijgspons  [details]
English Wanderingsea orangeOrange spongeorange fig horny spongefig sponge  [details]
French éponge figuier  [details]
German KorkschwammFeigenschwamm  [details]
Japanese ツミイレカイメン  [details]
Russian Пробковая губка суберитес фикус  [details]


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