Spongia
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| Spongia officinalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Dictyoceratida |
| Family: | Spongiidae |
| Genus: | Spongia Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Global distribution of Spongia species | |
Spongia is a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae, originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1759, containing more than 60 species.[1] Some species, including Spongia officinalis, are used as cleaning tools, but have mostly been replaced in that use by synthetic or plant material.
Classification
[edit]The following species are recognised in the genus Spongia:[1]
- Subgenus unassigned
- Spongia alpheushyatti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia alpheusi Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia hyatti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia jeanbaptistei Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia lacinulosa Lamarck, 1814
- Spongia lamarcki Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- †Spongia mantelli Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia muricata sensu Linnaeus, 1759
- Spongia solidahyatti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia stellifera Lamarck, 1814
- Subgenus Australospongia Cook & Bergquist, 2001
- Spongia gracilis Cook & Bergquist, 2001
- Subgenus Heterofibria Cook & Bergquist, 2001
- Spongia catarinensis Mothes, Kasper, Lerner, Campos & Carraro, 2006
- Spongia corallina Kim & Sim, 2009
- Spongia corrugata Cook & Bergquist, 2001
- Spongia decooki Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia gorgonocephalus Cook & Bergquist, 2001
- Spongia manipulatus Cook & Bergquist, 2001
- Spongia mokohinau Cook & Bergquist, 2001
- Spongia peddemorsi Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2020
- Spongia purpurea Kim & Sim, 2009
- Spongia smaragdus Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019
- Subgenus Spongia
- Spongia adjimensis (Topsent, 1925)
- Spongia agaricina Pallas, 1766
- Spongia anclotea de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
- Spongia arabica arabica Keller, 1889
- Spongia australis Bergquist, 1995
- Spongia bailyi (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Spongia barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
- Spongia bibulus Rao, 1941
- Spongia brunnea Lévi, 1969
- Spongia cerebralis Thiele, 1905
- Spongia ceylonensis (Dendy, 1905)
- Spongia coelosia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
- Spongia conifera (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Spongia cookii Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia distans (Schulz, 1900)
- Spongia excavata (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Spongia fistulosa (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Spongia fuscoides Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia graminea Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814
- Spongia hospes (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Spongia illawarra (Whitelegge, 1901)
- Spongia lamella (Schulze, 1879)
- Spongia lesleighae Helmy, El Serehy, Mohamed & van Soest, 2004
- Spongia lignea Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia lobosa (Poléjaeff, 1884)
- Spongia magellanica Thiele, 1905
- Spongia matamata de Laubenfels, 1954
- Spongia mexicana Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia mollicula Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia mollissima Schmidt, 1862
- Spongia nicholsoni Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia nitens (Schmidt, 1862)
- Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
- Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia oceanica de Laubenfels, 1950
- Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759
- Spongia osculata (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Spongia osculosa (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Spongia perforata(Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Spongia pilosa (Wilson, 1902)
- Spongia raoi Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
- Spongia reticulata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Spongia solitaria Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia spinosa (Lendenfeld, 1888)
- Spongia sterea de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
- Spongia suriganensis (Wilson, 1925)
- Spongia sweeti (Kirkpatrick, 1900)
- Spongia tampa de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
- Spongia tectoria Hyatt, 1877
- Spongia tenuiramosa (Dendy, 1905)
- Spongia tubulifera Lamarck, 1814
- Spongia violacea Lévi, 1969
- Spongia virgultosa (Schmidt, 1868)
- Spongia zimocca Schmidt, 1862
References
[edit]- ^ a b van Soest, R. (2014). Spongia. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131759 on 2014-04-25
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