World Porifera Database - Species - Smenospongia musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

Porifera taxon details

Smenospongia musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

Spongia fenestrata Duch. & Mich lectotype specimen

AphiaID

165395 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165395)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Smenospongia Wiedenmayer, 1977

Original name

Spongia musicalis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Synonymised names

Aplysina fenestrata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted

Coscinoderma musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Spongia fenestrata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior homonym)

Spongia musicalis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Spongia musicalis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11943
page(s): 39 [details]

Type data

Lectotype (of Spongia musicalis Duchassaing &...

Lectotype (of Spongia musicalis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) ZMA Por. 02097, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]

Lectotype (of Spongia fenestrata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) MSNT Port. 102, geounit Eastern Caribbean [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. Smenospongia musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=165395 on 2026-09-29

Taxonomic edit history

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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

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2010-05-17 18:25:03Z

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original description (of Spongia musicalis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11943
page(s): 39 [details]

original description (of Spongia fenestrata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11943
page(s): 36; pl III fig 7 [details]

basis of record (of Aplysina fenestrata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)) Wilson, H.V. (1902 [1900]). The sponges collected in Porto Rico in 1899 by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. 2: 375-411.
page(s): 408 [details]

additional source (of Spongia musicalis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 192 [details]

additional source (of Spongia fenestrata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. (1983). Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 9 (21): 189-205.
page(s): 192 [details]

redescription (of Spongia musicalis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1978). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 56 (179): 1–94.
page(s): 29-30 [details]

new combination reference (of Coscinoderma musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1978). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 56 (179): 1–94.
page(s): 29-30; fig 9, pl V-3 [details]