Spongia officinalis

• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of -62 meters (-203 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Spongia mollissima Schmidt, 1862
2. Spongia officinalis adriatica Schmidt, 1862
3. Spongia officinalis mediterranea Hyatt, 1877
4. Spongia officinalis tubuliformis Hyatt, 1877
5. Spongia officinalis zimocciformis Hyatt, 1877
6. Spongia quarnerensis Schmidt, 1862

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Database Administrator, 07-Oct-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Spongia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 111 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

S. adjimensis · S. agaricina (Yellow Sponge) · S. arabica · S. aurea · S. australis · S. bailyi · S. barbara (Yellow Sponge) · S. bartholomei · S. bibulus · S. brunnea · S. caliciformis · S. cerebralis · S. cerebriformis · S. ceylonensis (Bath Sponge) · S. cheiris · S. cladonia · S. conifera · S. conus · S. cookii · S. coriacea · S. corlosia · S. corrugata · S. cristata · S. dentata · S. distans · S. ditelliformis · S. divisa · S. dumetosa · S. dura · S. excavata · S. fenestrata · S. fibrillosum · S. fistulosa · S. fuliginosa · S. gorgonocephalus · S. gracilis · S. graminea (Glove Sponge) · S. guadelupensis · S. haagenseni · S. hispida · S. hospes · S. idia · S. illawarra · S. intermedia · S. irregularis · S. isidis · S. krebbresii · S. lacinuliformis · S. lacustris · S. laevigata · S. lesleighae · S. lignea · S. lignea crassa · S. linteiformis · S. lobosa · S. magellanica · S. manipulatus · S. matamata · S. mexicana · S. mokohinau · S. mollicula · S. napiformis · S. negligens · S. nicholsoni · S. nitens · S. obliqua · S. obscura · S. oceania · S. oceanica · S. officinalis · S. officinalis lamella · S. officinalis mollissima · S. osculata · S. osculosa · S. panicea · S. papyracea · S. pavonia · S. penicillus · S. perforata · S. pertusa · S. pikei · S. pilosa · S. plana · S. polychotoma · S. prava · S. punctata · S. punctata densa · S. reticulata · S. semitubulosa · S. seriata · S. solitaria · S. spinosa · S. sterea (Wire Sponge) · S. strigosa · S. subcircularis · S. suriganensis · S. tampa · S. tectoria · S. tenuiramosa · S. tetheaformis

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Further Reading

• A monograph of the British Spongiadæ. By J. S. Bowerbank. London, Pub. for the Ray society by R. Hardwicke, 1864-82. ENG url p. 107, p. 12, p. 205, p. 63, p. 64.
• A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. By Charles Darwin. London, Ray society, 1851-54. ENG url p. 312.
• Allgemeine Fischerei-Zeitung. M©nchen [etc.]Landesfischereiverband Bayern [etc.] GER url p. 229.
• Annales des sciences naturelles: comprenant La physiologie animale et végétale, l'anatomie comparée des deux règnes, la zoologie, la botanique, la minéralogie et la géologie Paris: Crochard FRE url p. 165.
• Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Paris. url p. 370.
• Annals and magazine of natural history: including zoology, botany and geology London. url p. 73.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 300.
• Atti del museo civico di storia naturale di Trieste. Trieste: Il Museo, 1884- ITA url p. 58.
• Atti dell' Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali in Catania. url p. 34, p. 381.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 484.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) ENG url p. 171, p. 423.
• Descrizione e notomia degli animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli anni 1822-1830. Naples, 1841-1844. ITA url p. 165.
• Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Leipzig: C.F. Winter, 1859-1901. GER url p. 28.
• Discovery reports. London; Cambridge University Press. ENG url p. 243, p. 340, p. 359, p. 370.
• Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis / P. S. Pallas. Hagae-Comitum: Apud Petrum van Cleef, 1766. LAT url p. 387.
• Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. ENG url p. 263, p. 600.
• Handbuch der zoologie, von Jul. Victor Carus und C. E. A. Gerstaecker. Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 1863-75. GER url p. 573.
• Manuel d'actinologie ou de zoophytologie. Paris, 1834-[1836]. FRE url p. 529.
• Marine products of commerce; their acquisition, handling, biological aspects, and the science and techology of their preparation and preservation, by Donald K. Tressler and James McW. Lemon in collaboration with Alexander E. Alexander [and others] New York, Book Division, Reinhold, 1951. ENG url p. 739.
• Memoirs read before the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston[Boston Society of Natural History]1862-1878. ENG url p. 484, p. 486, p. 491, p. 492, p. 508, p. 509, p. 517, p. 522, p. 525, p. 552.
• Memorias Economicas da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. url p. 193.
• Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli. Napoli, 1823-1829. ITA url p. 111.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. ENG url p. 529, p. 530.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 9.
• Report to the government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries of the gulf of Manaar, by W.A. Herdman With supplementary reports upon the marine biology of Ceylon, by other naturalists. Pub. at the request of the colonial government by the Royal so London, 1903-06. url p. 211.
• Schilderung der deutschen Pflanzenfamilien: vom botanisch- descriptiven und physiologisch-chemischen Standpunkte / von Hermann Hoffmann. Giessen: G.F. Hener's Verlag, 1846. GER url p. 13.
• Sea-shore life; the invertebrates of the New York coast and the adjacent coast region, by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer. [New York]A. S. Barnes, 1905. ENG url p. 27.
• Sitzungs-berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. [Berlin: R. Friedler und Sohn], 1839- GER url p. 54.
• The Journal of microscopy and natural science. [London: W. P. Collins, 1884- ENG url p. 350.
• The commercial products of the sea; or, Marine contributions to food, industry, and art. By P. L. Simmonds with thirty-two illustrations. London, Griffith and Farran, 1879. ENG url p. 156, p. 159, p. 160, p. 164, p. 165, p. 167.
• The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Ed. by Robert B. Todd London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1836-59. ENG url p. 864.
• The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Prepared through the co-operation of the commissioner of fisheries and the superintendent of the tenth census by George Brown Goode and a staff of associates Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1884-87. ENG url p. 819, p. 845, p. 847.
• The microscope: its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument and the study of microscopical science / by Jabez Hogg; with upwards of five hundred engravings and coloured illustrations by Tuffen W London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1871. ENG url p. 399.
• The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes: collected by the late John Ellis Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander London, B. White and son [etc.]1786. ENG url p. 183.
• The sponges of the west-central Pacific. Corvallis, Oregon State College, 1954. ENG url p. 284, p. 288, p. 289, p. 4, p. 5, p. 6.
• Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London. url p. 33, p. 34, p. 35, p. 37.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 24, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• World Porifera Database, 1.0, 2006.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• European Environment Agency: EUNIS
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: MedOBIS
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• NLBIF: Zoological Museum Amsterdam - Porifera

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 490464
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Por-165220
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 47545
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 448675

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 174.380 based on 18 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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