Porifera taxon details
Spongia (Spongia) obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977
1729225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1729225)
accepted
Species
Spongia (Spongia) caliciformis sensu Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
Spongia (Spongia) divisa Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
Spongia (Spongia) obscura sensu Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
Spongia (Spongia) plana Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
Spongia divisa Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
Spongia equina cerebriformis var. caliciformis Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable name)
Spongia equina cerebriformis var. divisa Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable name)
Spongia equina cerebriformis var. mexicana Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
Spongia equina cerebriformis var. obscura Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable name)
Spongia equina cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
Spongia equina cerebriformis var. typica Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavaible name)
Spongia mexicana Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877 · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Spongia plana Hyatt, 1877 · unaccepted (unavailable original name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 56; note: Originally as Spongia equina cerebriformisvar. obscura sensu Hyatt, 1877 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 56; note: Originally as Spongia equina cerebriformisvar. obscura sensu Hyatt, 1877 [details] Available for editors
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Nomenclature This a nomen novum for Hyatt’s Spongia equina cerebriformis var. obscura, which is not an available name (as it has a...
Nomenclature This a nomen novum for Hyatt’s Spongia equina cerebriformis var. obscura, which is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5), and elevation in rank as Wiedenmayer and Van Soest have attempted is similarly invalid (ICZN art. 45.5.1). Since the synonyms listed by Wiedenmayer do not contain an available species name, I assign Wiedenmayer’s material from Nassau, Bahamas and Key West, Florida to Spongia (Spongia) obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977 (allowed under ICZN art. 45.5.1), with dried holotype USNM 30097, fieldnr. O651 (depicted in Wiedenmayer 1977: pl. 2 fig.3), locality W of Andros Island, Bahamas, approximate coordinates 24.21°N 78.04°W, depth 2 m. Unavailable names of several Hyatt (1877) varieties of S. e. subsp. cerebriformis (divisa, mexicana, plana and typica, q.v.) are also attributable to this species. [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. Spongia (Spongia) obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=1729225 on 2025-05-09
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original description
Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 56; note: Originally as Spongia equina cerebriformisvar. obscura sensu Hyatt, 1877 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. obscura Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 521-522; pl XVI fig 29 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. caliciformis Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 521 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. divisa Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 521 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. typica Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 520 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 520-521 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. mexicana Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 521 [details]
basis of record 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): 24 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. obscura Hyatt, 1877) 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): 24 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877) 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): 24 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. mexicana Hyatt, 1877) 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): 24 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. typica Hyatt, 1877) 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): 25 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. divisa Hyatt, 1877) 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): 23 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. caliciformis Hyatt, 1877) 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): 24 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Spongia (Spongia) obscura sensu Hyatt, 1877) Ugalde, D.; Fernandez, J.C.C.; Gómez, P.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Simões, N. (2021). An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern gulf of Mexico coral reefs. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5031 (1): 001–112., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5031.1.1
page(s): 85 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 56-58; pl 2 fig 3 & pl 3 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 31-33; fig 7 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Rützler, K.; Díaz, M.C.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Zea, S.; Smith, K.P.; Alvarez, B.; Wulff, J. (2000). Diversity of sponge fauna in mangrove ponds, Pelican Cays, Belize. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 476: 230-248.
page(s): 238 [details]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. <em>Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 31: 1-39.
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) 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 (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Alcolado, PM. (2007). Comunidades de esponjas de manglares de Cuba in: Ecosistemas de manglar en el archipélago cubano, (eds Carrera, LM; Guzman JM). <em>Academia de Cuba, La Habana.</em> pp 243-253.
page(s): 251 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 48 (5): 71-103.
page(s): 94 [details]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1978). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. <i>In</i>: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 56 (179): 1–94.
page(s): 14 [details]
source of synonymy (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877) Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 56 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 56; note: Originally as Spongia equina cerebriformisvar. obscura sensu Hyatt, 1877 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. obscura Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 521-522; pl XVI fig 29 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. caliciformis Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 521 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. divisa Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 521 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. typica Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 520 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 520-521 [details]
original description (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. mexicana Hyatt, 1877) Hyatt, A. (1877). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII.
page(s): 521 [details]
basis of record 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): 24 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. obscura Hyatt, 1877) 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): 24 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877) 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): 24 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. mexicana Hyatt, 1877) 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): 24 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. typica Hyatt, 1877) 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): 25 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. divisa Hyatt, 1877) 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): 23 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. caliciformis Hyatt, 1877) 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): 24 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Spongia (Spongia) obscura sensu Hyatt, 1877) Ugalde, D.; Fernandez, J.C.C.; Gómez, P.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Simões, N. (2021). An update on the diversity of marine sponges in the southern gulf of Mexico coral reefs. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5031 (1): 001–112., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5031.1.1
page(s): 85 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 56-58; pl 2 fig 3 & pl 3 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 31-33; fig 7 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Rützler, K.; Díaz, M.C.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Zea, S.; Smith, K.P.; Alvarez, B.; Wulff, J. (2000). Diversity of sponge fauna in mangrove ponds, Pelican Cays, Belize. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 476: 230-248.
page(s): 238 [details]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. <em>Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 31: 1-39.
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) 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 (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Alcolado, PM. (2007). Comunidades de esponjas de manglares de Cuba in: Ecosistemas de manglar en el archipélago cubano, (eds Carrera, LM; Guzman JM). <em>Academia de Cuba, La Habana.</em> pp 243-253.
page(s): 251 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 48 (5): 71-103.
page(s): 94 [details]
additional source (of Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877) Van Soest, R.W.M. (1978). Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. <i>In</i>: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 56 (179): 1–94.
page(s): 14 [details]
source of synonymy (of Spongia equina cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877) Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 56 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Nomenclature This a nomen novum for Hyatt’s Spongia equina cerebriformis var. obscura, which is not an available name (as it has a fourth name, ICZN art. 45.5), and elevation in rank as Wiedenmayer and Van Soest have attempted is similarly invalid (ICZN art. 45.5.1). Since the synonyms listed by Wiedenmayer do not contain an available species name, I assign Wiedenmayer’s material from Nassau, Bahamas and Key West, Florida to Spongia (Spongia) obscura Wiedenmayer, 1977 (allowed under ICZN art. 45.5.1), with dried holotype USNM 30097, fieldnr. O651 (depicted in Wiedenmayer 1977: pl. 2 fig.3), locality W of Andros Island, Bahamas, approximate coordinates 24.21°N 78.04°W, depth 2 m. Unavailable names of several Hyatt (1877) varieties of S. e. subsp. cerebriformis (divisa, mexicana, plana and typica, q.v.) are also attributable to this species. [details]
