World Porifera Database - Species - Mycale indica (Carter, 1887)

Porifera name details

Mycale indica (Carter, 1887)

AphiaID

1481322 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1481322)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior synonym and subgenus assignment)

Accepted name

Mycale (Mycale) grandis Gray, 1867

Rank

Species

Parent

Mycale Gray, 1867

Original name

Esperia indica Carter, 1887

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Esperia indica Carter, 1887) Carter, H.J. (1887). Report on the Marine Sponges, chiefly from King Island, in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology. 21(127-128): 61-84, pls 5-7., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1887.tb00381.x [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. Mycale indica (Carter, 1887). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=1481322 on 2026-07-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-02-07 12:33:59Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Sources (3)
Documented distribution (2)

original description (of Esperia indica Carter, 1887) Carter, H.J. (1887). Report on the Marine Sponges, chiefly from King Island, in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology. 21(127-128): 61-84, pls 5-7., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1887.tb00381.x [details]

additional source Rao, H.S. 1941. Indian and Ceylon sponges of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm collected by K. Fristedt. Records of the Indian Museum 43: 417-469., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v43/i2/1941/162394
page(s): 445 [details]

new combination reference Burton, M.; Rao, H.S. (1932). Report on the shallow water marine sponges in the collection of the Indian Museum. Part I. Records of the indian Museum. 34(3): 299-356., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v34/i3/1932/162576
page(s): 327 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality