North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880

Amphilectus fucorum

AphiaID

131933 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131933)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923

Original name

Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880

Synonymised names

Corybas Gray, 1867 · unaccepted (preoccupied)

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Species Amphilectus columnatus (Topsent, 1890)
Species Amphilectus fucorum (Esper, 1794)
Species Amphilectus glaber (Brøndsted, 1924)
Species Amphilectus ovulum (Schmidt, 1870)
Species Amphilectus pedicellatus (Lundbeck, 1905)
Species Amphilectus typichela (Lundbeck, 1905)
Species Amphilectus armatus (Bowerbank, 1862) accepted as Clathria (Microciona) armata (Bowerbank, 1862) (genus transfer)
Species Amphilectus foliata (Bowerbank, 1874) accepted as Clathria (Clathria) barleei (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Species Amphilectus gerzensteini Swartschevsky, 1906 accepted as Crella gerzensteini (Swartschevsky, 1906) (genus transfer)
Species Amphilectus laciniosa (Bowerbank in Norman, 1869) accepted as Clathria (Clathria) barleei (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Species Amphilectus lobata (Montagu, 1814) accepted as Amphilectus ovulum (Schmidt, 1870) (preoccupied)
Species Amphilectus lobatus (Montagu, 1814) accepted as Amphilectus ovulum (Schmidt, 1870) (preoccupied)
Species Amphilectus mutulus (Bowerbank, 1874) accepted as Clathria (Clathria) barleei (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species Amphilectus osculosus Topsent, 1892 accepted as Phorbas osculosus (Topsent, 1892) (genus transfer)
Species Amphilectus strongylatus Alander, 1942 accepted as Esperiopsis strongylatus (Alander, 1942) (genus transfer)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1880). The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. 1. The family of the Desmacidinae. Notes from the Leyden Museum. 2: 99-164.
page(s): 109-111 [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. Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131933 on 2026-08-04

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=131933 on 2026-08-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2005-07-26 12:02:34Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-12-21 19:17:33Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2020-02-25 13:56:07Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

2020-12-11 14:28:33Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1880). The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. 1. The family of the Desmacidinae. Notes from the Leyden Museum. 2: 99-164.
page(s): 109-111 [details]

original description (of Corybas Gray, 1867) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details]

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 656-664. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 656-664. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)'. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_71 [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Voogd, N.J. (2012). Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species. European Journal of Taxonomy. 18: 1-21., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.18 [details]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]