World Porifera Database - Species - Ophlitaspongia coralloides (Scopoli, 1772)

Porifera name details

Ophlitaspongia coralloides (Scopoli, 1772)

AphiaID

1551029 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1551029)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Clathria (Clathria) coralloides (Scopoli, 1772)

Rank

Species

Parent

Ophlitaspongia Bowerbank, 1866

Original name

Spongia coralloides Scopoli, 1772

Environment

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

Original description

(of Spongia coralloides Scopoli, 1772) Scopoli, J.A. 1772. Flora carniolica exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano. Vol. II (ed. secunda aucta et reformata). Sponges pp. 411-413, pl. 64. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.159554
page(s): 412 [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. Ophlitaspongia coralloides (Scopoli, 1772). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=1551029 on 2026-08-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-12-07 15:19:36Z

created

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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Sources (2)

original description (of Spongia coralloides Scopoli, 1772) Scopoli, J.A. 1772. Flora carniolica exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano. Vol. II (ed. secunda aucta et reformata). Sponges pp. 411-413, pl. 64. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.159554
page(s): 412 [details]

source of synonymy Topsent, E. (1901). Considérations sur la faune des spongiaires des côtes d'Algérie. Eponges de La Calle. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 9: 327-370, pls XIII-XIV.
page(s): 330 [details]