World Porifera Database - Species - Dendrospongia steerii Murie, 1877

Porifera name details

Dendrospongia steerii Murie, 1877

AphiaID

490097 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:490097)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus name preoccupied & junior synonym)

Accepted name

Sclerothamnus clausii Marshall, 1875

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Dendrospongia Murie, 1877

Parent

Dendrospongia Murie, 1877 accepted as Sclerothamnus Marshall, 1875

Original name

Dendrospongia steerii Murie, 1877

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Murie, J. (1877). On Steere's Sponge, a new Genus of the Hexactinellid Group of the Spongida. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. (2) 1(5): 219-234, pls XXXVI-XXXVII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1877.tb00440.x
page(s): 228-230 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Eastern Philippines

type locality contained in Eastern Philippines [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. Dendrospongia steerii Murie, 1877. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=490097 on 2026-09-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-07-18 12:26:15Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2021-10-08 11:31:03Z

changed

Dohrmann, Martin

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Sources (3)
Documented distribution (1)

original description Murie, J. (1877). On Steere's Sponge, a new Genus of the Hexactinellid Group of the Spongida. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. (2) 1(5): 219-234, pls XXXVI-XXXVII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1877.tb00440.x
page(s): 228-230 [details]

basis of record Reiswig, H.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Tretodictyidae Schulze, 1886. pp. 1341-1354. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY. 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Reiswig, H.M. (2002). Family Tretodictyidae Schulze, 1886. pp. 1341-1354. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Vol. 2 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_137 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality