North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

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Aplysina Nardo, 1834

Aplysina aerophoba

AphiaID

131975 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131975)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Aplysinidae Carter, 1875

Original name

Aplysina Nardo, 1834

Synonymised names

Verongia Bowerbank, 1845 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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Species Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833)
Species Aplysina cavernicola (Vacelet, 1959)
Species Aplysina tuberosa (Szymanski, 1904) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
Species Aplysina carnosa Schmidt, 1862 accepted as Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833) (junior synonym)
Species Aplysina corneostellata Carter, 1872 accepted as Darwinella corneostellata (Carter, 1872) (genus transfer)
Species Aplysina incrustans Carter, 1876 accepted as Chelonaplysilla incrustans (Carter, 1876) (genus transfer)
Species Aplysina massa (Szymanski, 1904) accepted as Cacospongia mollior Schmidt, 1862 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species Aplysina noevus Carter, 1876 accepted as Chelonaplysilla noevus (Carter, 1876) (genus transfer)
Species Aplysina zetlandica (Bowerbank, 1866) accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804) (genus transfer & junior synonym)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Nardo, G. D. (1834). De Spongiis. Isis (Oken). 714-716. [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. Aplysina Nardo, 1834. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=131975 on 2026-06-10

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Aplysina Nardo, 1834. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=131975 on 2026-06-10

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

2018-08-03 07:48:56Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

2020-12-17 10:11:20Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description Nardo, G. D. (1834). De Spongiis. Isis (Oken). 714-716. [details]

original description (of Verongia Bowerbank, 1845) Bowerbank, J.S. (1845). Observations on the Spongiadae, with descriptions of some new genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 16(107): 400-410, pls XIII-XIV., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/037454809495966
page(s): 403 [details]

basis of record Bergquist, P.R. (1980). The ordinal and subclass classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera); appraisal of the present arrangement, and proposal of a new order. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 7 (1): 1-6., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1980.10423761 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 390-403 [details]

additional source Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002). Family Aplysinidae Carter, 1875, pp. 1082-1085 In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY 1708+ XVLIII. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002[2004]). Family Aplysinidae Carter, 1875, pp. 1082-1085 in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY 1708+ XVLIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

additional source Bergquist, P.R. (1980). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 7 (4): 443-503., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1980.11760680
page(s): 490-494 [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]