World Porifera Database - Species - Aplysina fusca Carter, 1880

Porifera name details

Aplysina fusca Carter, 1880

AphiaID

190033 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:190033)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Suberea fusca (Carter, 1880)

Rank

Species

Parent

Aplysina Nardo, 1834

Original name

Aplysina fusca Carter, 1880

Environment

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

Original description

Carter, H.J. (1880). Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt.W.H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 6(31):35-61, pls IV-VI; 129-156, pls VII, VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938009458893
page(s): 36 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in South India and Sri Lanka

type locality contained in South India and Sri Lanka [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. Aplysina fusca Carter, 1880. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=190033 on 2026-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-12-18 15:00:44Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-10-06 14:20:30Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description Carter, H.J. (1880). Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt.W.H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 6(31):35-61, pls IV-VI; 129-156, pls VII, VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938009458893
page(s): 36 [details]

additional source Carter, H.J. (1881). Contributions to our Knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 8: 101-112, 118-120, 241-259.
page(s): 107-108 [details]

additional source Dendy, A. (1889). Report on a Second Collection of Sponges from the Gulf of Manaar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (6) 3: 73-99,pls III-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938909460303
page(s): 98 [details]

additional source Ridley, S.O. (1884). Spongiida. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert', 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London). 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54.
page(s): 600 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)