World Porifera Database - Species - Petrosia exigua Kirkpatrick, 1900

Porifera name details

Petrosia exigua Kirkpatrick, 1900

AphiaID

192906 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192906)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Neopetrosia chaliniformis (Thiele, 1899)

Rank

Species

Parent

Petrosia Vosmaer, 1885

Original name

Petrosia exigua Kirkpatrick, 1900

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Kirkpatrick, R. (1900). On the Sponges of Christmas Island. <em>Proceedings of the Zoolological Society of London.</em> 1900: 127-141, pls XII-XIII.
page(s): 139 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island

type locality contained in Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island [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. Petrosia exigua Kirkpatrick, 1900. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=192906 on 2026-07-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-12-18 15:00:44Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-02-02 13:03:02Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2020-12-17 17:08:50Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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original description Kirkpatrick, R. (1900). On the Sponges of Christmas Island. <em>Proceedings of the Zoolological Society of London.</em> 1900: 127-141, pls XII-XIII.
page(s): 139 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Holotype BMNH [details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To GenBank (33 nucleotides; 17 proteins)