World Porifera Database - Species - Esperia lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)

Porifera name details

Esperia lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)

AphiaID

236482 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236482)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)

Rank

Species

Parent

Esperia Nardo, 1833 accepted as Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867

Original name

Hymeniacidon lingua Bowerbank, 1866

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Variety Esperia lingua var. arctica Fristedt, 1887 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) arctica (Fristedt, 1887)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Hymeniacidon lingua 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): 187-190 [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. Esperia lingua (Bowerbank, 1866). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=236482 on 2026-07-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-01-22 07:42:38Z

created

de Haas, Henk

2010-07-14 07:40:33Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description (of Hymeniacidon lingua 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): 187-190 [details]

additional source Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/26660644-01201001
page(s): 50 [details]

new combination reference Fristedt, K. (1885). Bidrag till Kännedomen om de vid Sveriges vestra Kust lefvande Spongiae. <em>Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar.</em> 21: 1-56, pls I-IV.
page(s): 449 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)