World Porifera Database - Species - Mycale (Carmia) subclavata (Bowerbank, 1866)

Porifera taxon details

Mycale (Carmia) subclavata (Bowerbank, 1866)

AphiaID

168605 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168605)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Mycale (Carmia) Gray, 1867

Original name

Hymeniacidon subclavata Bowerbank, 1866

Synonymised names

Desmacidon similaris Bowerbank, 1874 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)

Esperella albicans Topsent, 1892 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Esperella mollis Topsent, 1892 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Esperella sordida (Bowerbank, 1874) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Hymeniacidon subclavata Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Mycale (Carmia) similaris (Bowerbank, 1874) · unaccepted

Mycale albicans (Topsent, 1892) · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Mycale mollis (Topsent, 1892) · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Mycale similaris (Bowerbank, 1874) · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Mycale subclavata (Bowerbank, 1866) · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)

Raphiodesma similaris (Bowerbank, 1874) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Raphiodesma sordida Bowerbank, 1874 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Rhaphiodesma similaris · unaccepted (genus transfer and misspelling of...)

genus transfer and misspelling of genus name

Rhaphiodesma sordida · unaccepted (misspelling of genus name, genus...)

misspelling of genus name, genus transfer and junior synonym

Environment

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

Original description

(of Hymeniacidon subclavata Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 209-210 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Celtic Seas

type locality contained in Celtic Seas [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. Mycale (Carmia) subclavata (Bowerbank, 1866). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=168605 on 2026-01-14

Taxonomic edit history

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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

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original description (of Raphiodesma sordida Bowerbank, 1874) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 224, Pl. LXXVI 13-19; 230-234; 354; note: illustration of the type-specimen [details]

original description (of Esperella albicans Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Diagnoses d'éponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. (2) 10 (Notes et Revue 6) xvii-xxviii.
page(s): XXI [details]

original description (of Esperella mollis Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Diagnoses d'éponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. (2) 10 (Notes et Revue 6) xvii-xxviii.
page(s): XX [details]

original description (of Hymeniacidon subclavata Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 209-210 [details]

original description (of Rhaphiodesma sordida) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265 [details]

original description (of Desmacidon similaris Bowerbank, 1874) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 312, Pl. LXXXIX 14-20; 319-321; note: illustration of the type specimen [details]

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Voogd, N.J. (2014). Mycale species (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) of Northwest Africa and the Macaronesian Islands. Zoölogische Mededelingen Leiden. 88 (4): 59-109.
page(s): 86 [details]

additional source Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp. , available online at http://hal-02490465
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Esperella mollis Topsent, 1892) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record (of Mycale albicans (Topsent, 1892)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record (of Mycale mollis (Topsent, 1892)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record (of Mycale similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Topsent, E. (1924). Révision des Mycales de l'Europe occidentale. Annales de l'Institut océanographique. 1(3): 77-118. [details] Available for editors

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basis of record (of Raphiodesma similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record (of Raphiodesma sordida Bowerbank, 1874) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record (of Rhaphiodesma sordida) Carter, H.J. (1882). Some Sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory Remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 9(52): 266-301, 346-368, pls XI-XII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26194801#page/360/mode/1up
page(s): 294; note: Carter spelled the species name also as sordidum. [details]

basis of record (of Esperella sordida (Bowerbank, 1874)) Hanitsch, R. (1891). Notes on some sponges collected by Professor Herdman off the west coast of Ireland from the 'Argo'. Transactions of the Biological Society of Liverpool. 5: 213-222.
page(s): 214-217 [details]

basis of record (of Mycale (Carmia) similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society. 1-175.
page(s): 114-115 [details]

basis of record (of Rhaphiodesma similaris) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 81 [details]

basis of record (of Mycale (Carmia) similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Topsent, E. (1936). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Deuxième partie). Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 686: 1-7.
page(s): 11 [details]

additional source (of Mycale (Carmia) similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Topsent, E. (1932). Remarques sur des Eponges de l'estuaire de la Rance. Bulletin du Laboratoire maritime du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Saint-Servan. 8: 1-7.
page(s): 2 [details]

additional source (of Esperella sordida (Bowerbank, 1874)) Delage, Y. (1892). Embryogénie des éponges. Développement post-larvaire des éponges siliceuses et fibreuses marines et d'eau douce. Archives de Zoologie générale et experimentale. (2) 10: 345-498. [details]

additional source (of Esperella sordida (Bowerbank, 1874)) Topsent, E. (1890). Éponges de la Manche. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 3 (1): 195-205.
page(s): 201 [details]

additional source (of Esperella sordida (Bowerbank, 1874)) Topsent, E. (1891). Spongaires des côtes océaniques de France. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 6: 125-129.
page(s): 127 [details]

additional source (of Mycale similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Topsent, E. (1925). Éponges de l'Étang de Thau. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco. 452, 1-42.
page(s): 12 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Mycale similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Girard-Descatoire, A.; Castric-Fey, A.; L'Hardy-Halos, M.T. (1995). Inventaire de la Faune et de la Flore sur les fonds rocheux autour de l'île d'Ouessant. Rapport ADMS, Direction Régionale de l'Environnement Bretagne, Conseil Régional de Bretagne, Conseil Général du Finistère, Fonds Européens, Rennes., 148pp. Convention ZNIEFF 94.
page(s): Annexe 1, 9 [details]

additional source (of Mycale similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source (of Mycale similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Mycale similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Burton, M. (1930). Additions to the Sponge Fauna at Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 16(2): 489-507.
page(s): 491 [details]

additional source (of Mycale similaris (Bowerbank, 1874)) Descatoire, A. (1969). Peuplements sessiles de l'Archipel de Glénan de l'infralittoral rocheux. I. - Inventaire: Spongiaires. Vie et Milieu (B, Océanographie). 20 (1B): 177-209.
page(s): 192 [details] Available for editors

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additional source (of Esperella albicans Topsent, 1892) Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source (of Hymeniacidon subclavata Bowerbank, 1866) Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 93, Pl. XXXVII 9-13; note: illustration of the type-specimen [details]

new combination reference (of Mycale subclavata (Bowerbank, 1866)) Burton, M. (1957). Phylum Porifera. Pp. 26-36. In: Wilson, D.P. (Ed.), Plymouth Marine Fauna, 3rd edition. Being notes on the local distribution of species occurring in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, including some other records of species found on the south coasts of Devon and Cornwall and the adjacent offshore water. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unknown type (of Esperella albicans Topsent, 1892) MNHN DT 2635, geounit Western Mediterranean [details]

Unknown type (of Esperella mollis Topsent, 1892) MNHN DT 2635, geounit Western Mediterranean [details]

Definitions