World Porifera Database - Species - Spongia (Spongia) conifera (Lendenfeld, 1886)

WoRMS taxon details

Spongia (Spongia) conifera (Lendenfeld, 1886)

AphiaID

165173 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165173)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759

Original name

Euspongia conifera Lendenfeld, 1886

Synonymised names

Euspongia conifera Lendenfeld, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Euspongia trincomalensis Lendenfeld, 1889 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)

Spongia conifera (Lendenfeld, 1886) · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Euspongia conifera Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38.
page(s): 500-501 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef

type locality contained in Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef [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. Spongia (Spongia) conifera (Lendenfeld, 1886). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165173 on 2025-07-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

created

db_admin

2008-05-17 18:49:07Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Euspongia conifera Lendenfeld, 1886) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1886 [1885]). A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. Part VI. The Genus Euspongia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 10 (3): 481-553, pls 36-38.
page(s): 500-501 [details]

original description (of Euspongia trincomalensis Lendenfeld, 1889) 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): 260-261 [details]

original description (of Euspongia trincomalensis Lendenfeld, 1889) Lendenfeld, R. Von. (1889). Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Hornschwämme. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik,Geographie und Biologie der Thiere. 4(1): 1-93. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Euspongia trincomalensis Lendenfeld, 1889)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Euspongia conifera Lendenfeld, 1886)