World Porifera Database - Species - Dictyodendrilla massa (Carter, 1886)

Porifera taxon details

Dictyodendrilla massa (Carter, 1886)

AphiaID

164895 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164895)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dictyodendrilla Bergquist, 1980

Original name

Aplysina massa Carter, 1886

Synonymised names

Aplysilla massa (Carter, 1886) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Aplysina massa Carter, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Dendrilla massa (Carter, 1886) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Aplysina massa Carter, 1886) Carter, H.J. (1886). Supplement to the Descriptions of Mr.J. Bracebridge Wilson's Australian Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 18: 271-290, 369-379, 445-466, pl. X., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938609459996
page(s): 284 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Bassian

type locality contained in Bassian [from synonym] [view taxon] [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. Dictyodendrilla massa (Carter, 1886). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=164895 on 2026-09-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

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2006-10-07 17:41:03Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description (of Aplysina massa Carter, 1886) Carter, H.J. (1886). Supplement to the Descriptions of Mr.J. Bracebridge Wilson's Australian Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 18: 271-290, 369-379, 445-466, pl. X., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938609459996
page(s): 284 [details]

additional source Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. (1994). Porifera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO. , available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist
page(s): 184 [details]

additional source Vacelet, J. (1958). Dendrilla acantha nov. sp. nouvelle éponge cornée méditerranéenne. Remarques sur les genres Dendrilla Lendenfeld et Megalopastas Dendy. Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume. 14 (23): 143-147, fig. 1-2.
page(s): 144; note: Assigned D.massa to genus Megalopastas. [details]

new combination reference Bergquist, P.R. (1996). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera: Demospongiae. Part 5. Dendroceratida and Halisarca. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 107: 1-53.
page(s): 24 [details]

additional source (of Aplysina massa Carter, 1886) 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): 420 [details]

source of synonymy (of Aplysilla massa (Carter, 1886)) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 3: 1-217.
page(s): 166 [details] Available for editors

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new combination reference (of Dendrilla massa (Carter, 1886)) Burton, M. (1934). Sponges. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29. 4 (14): 513-621, pls 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49517195#page/667/mode/1up
page(s): 595 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Syntype (of Aplysina massa Carter, 1886) BMNH 1887.7.11.18, geounit Bassian [details]

Syntype (of Aplysina massa Carter, 1886) BMNH 1887.7.11.22, geounit Bassian [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Aplysina massa Carter, 1886)