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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Breitfuss, L.L. (1898). Kalkschwammfauna des weissen Meeres und der Eismeersküsten des europäischen Russlands. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg.</em> (VIII) 6 (2): 1-40. [details] 
original description
(of Spongia foliacea Montagu, 1814) 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): 92-93 [details] 
status source
Burton, M. (1963). A revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. With a Catalogue of the specimens in the British Museum (Natural History). W. Clowes and Sons Ltd.: London. 693 pp. page(s): 444 [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Breitfuss provided only a very general locality ('Nordliches Eismeer'). In 1932, he translated that to 'Barentsmeer', and added some additional localities of the 'Helgoland' Expedition from around Spitsbergen. [details]
Identification Breitfuss (1898, 1932) referred to Montagu's (1814) description of Spongia foliacea as the basis for his species. Montagu's species is here accepted as junior synonym of Grantia compressa (Fabicius, 1780). Remarkably, Burton (1963: 444) assumed that Breitfuss was the author of the combination Grantia foliacea apparently overlooking that Breitfuss considered his specimens as conspecific with Montagu's. A further cmplication is that Montagu's Spongia foliacea is a junior homonym of Spongia foliacea Esper, 1797, q.v. [details]
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