Porifera name details
Halicometes stellata sensu Little, 1963
368473 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:368473)
unaccepted (preoccupied)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Little, F.J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology 11(2).</em> 31-71.
page(s): 56 [details]
page(s): 56 [details]
Holotype USNM 23571, geounit Northern Gulf of Mexico
Holotype USNM 23571, geounit Northern Gulf of Mexico [details]
Taxonomy De Laubenfels' (1950) and Little's (1963) Halicometes stellata is a Timea according to Hechtel (1969), who transfered it to...
Taxonomy De Laubenfels' (1950) and Little's (1963) Halicometes stellata is a Timea according to Hechtel (1969), who transfered it to Timea stellata. However, it is not the same species as Bowerbank's T. stellata (Bowerbank, 1866). Lehnert & Heimler, 2001 erected Timea hechteli for it. [details]
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. Halicometes stellata sensu Little, 1963. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=368473 on 2025-05-10
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Little, F.J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology 11(2).</em> 31-71.
page(s): 56 [details]
additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1950). The Porifera of the Bermuda archipelago. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 27(1): 1-154.
page(s): 99 [details]
new combination reference Hechtel, G.J. (1969). New species and records of shallow-water Demospongiae from Barbados, West Indies. <em>Postilla.</em> 132, 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.12977
page(s): 32; note: allocated to Timea [details]
status source Lehnert, H.; Heimler, W. (2001). Description of the North Jamaican <i>Timea micraster</i> n.sp. (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida: Timeidae). <em>Beaufortia.</em> 51 (12): 213-220.
page(s): 218 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 56 [details]
additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1950). The Porifera of the Bermuda archipelago. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 27(1): 1-154.
page(s): 99 [details]
new combination reference Hechtel, G.J. (1969). New species and records of shallow-water Demospongiae from Barbados, West Indies. <em>Postilla.</em> 132, 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.12977
page(s): 32; note: allocated to Timea [details]
status source Lehnert, H.; Heimler, W. (2001). Description of the North Jamaican <i>Timea micraster</i> n.sp. (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida: Timeidae). <em>Beaufortia.</em> 51 (12): 213-220.
page(s): 218 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 23571, geounit Northern Gulf of Mexico [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy De Laubenfels' (1950) and Little's (1963) Halicometes stellata is a Timea according to Hechtel (1969), who transfered it to Timea stellata. However, it is not the same species as Bowerbank's T. stellata (Bowerbank, 1866). Lehnert & Heimler, 2001 erected Timea hechteli for it. [details]
