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WoRMS name details
original description
Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1814 [1813]). Sur les polypiers empâtés. <em>Annales du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 20: 294-312; 370-386; 432-458. page(s): 456 [details]
basis of record
Topsent, E. (1933). Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Fin. <em>Archives du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris.</em> 10: 1-60. page(s): 8-9 [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1 page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Classification Lamarck’s species name is a junior primary homonym of Spongia linteiformis Esper (1797: 205, pl. LVIII), although Lamarck did mention Esper’s name with a question mark. Topsent’s (1933: 8, pl. I fig. 8) redescription and illustration of the type specimen in MNHN, registration not currently known (reproduced
here) make it amply clear that the two are different species, and also their localities are from different oceans (Lamarck’s specimen was from Puerto Rico, Esper’s from the Indian Ocean). Although the identity of Esper’s sponge is uncertain (it is not even certain that it concerns a sponge), Lamarck’s name must be replaced (ICZN art. 59.1) here replaced by Scalarispongia lamarcki nom.nov., because from Topsent’s redescription it can be deduced that it is a member of genus Scalarispongia Cook & Bergquist, 2000. Fattorusso et al. (1992) reported biochemical information (unprecedented sesterterpenes) from a specimen from the Bahamas of this species identified with some uncertainty. According to Topsent (1933: 9), Lamarck’s collection contained two additional specimens labeled , one being Echinochalina favosa (Lamarck, 1814), currently Echinochalina (Echinochalina) barba (Lamarck, 1814), and one (labeled ‘var.’) being Ircinia gigantea Von Lendenfeld, 1888, currently Ircinia irregularis (Poléjaeff, 1884), a species from Australia. [details]
Distribution Lamarck (1814) suggested that the specimens were possibly from the Indian Ocean, but Topsent (1933) subsequently discovered that they were from Puerto Rico. [details]
Homonymy Although Lamarck suggested that his material was similar to Spongia linteiformis Esper, 1794, the two are from widely different origins, Esper's material (incertae sedis) is from the Indo-Pacific, Lamarck's from Puerto Rico (and additional specimens, not assigned to Cacospongia by Topsent (1933) are assigned to Echinochalina and Ircinia. The Caribbean species needs to be renamed as it is a junior primary homonym. [details]
Identification The species is not recently recognized in the Caribbean sponge fauna and should be considered incertae sedis. [details]
Type material According to Topsent (1933) there were three specimens labeled Spongia linteiformis, one reassigned to to Cacospongia linteiformis by him. with label with origin Porto Rico, a second reassigned to to Echinochalina favosa (Lamarck, 1814 as Spongia) (=E. barba (Lamarck, 1814 as Spongia) from Australia ('Nouvelle-Holande'), and the third reassigned to Ircinia gigantea (Von Lendenfeld, 1889) from unknown locaiity. [details]
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