World Porifera Database - Species - Myxilla forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866)

Porifera name details

Myxilla forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866)

AphiaID

236256 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236256)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Forcepia (Forcepia) forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866)

Rank

Species

Parent

Myxilla Schmidt, 1862

Original name

Halichondria forcipis Bowerbank, 1866

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Halichondria forcipis 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): 244-246 [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. Myxilla forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=236256 on 2026-07-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-01-09 07:36:46Z

created

de Haas, Henk

2007-09-08 14:05:10Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description (of Halichondria forcipis 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): 244-246 [details]

new combination reference Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1880). The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. 1. The family of the Desmacidinae. <em>Notes from the Leyden Museum.</em> 2: 99-164. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)