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Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833)

Aplysina aerophoba
Aplysina aerophoba

133911 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133911)

accepted
Species
Aplysina carnosa Schmidt, 1862 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Nardo, G.D. (1833). Auszug aus einem neuen System der Spongiarien,wonach bereits die Aufstellung in der Universitäts-Sammlung zu Padua gemacht ist. Pp. 519-523. <em>In: Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung Coll. (Oken: Jena).</em>
page(s): 522 [details] OpenAccess publication
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 aerophoba (Nardo, 1833). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=133911 on 2026-09-02
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=133911 on 2026-09-02
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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van Soest, Rob W.M.
2011-07-24 13:35:32Z
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Boury-Esnault, Nicole
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Boury-Esnault, Nicole

original description (of ) Nardo, G.D. (1833). Auszug aus einem neuen System der Spongiarien,wonach bereits die Aufstellung in der Universitäts-Sammlung zu Padua gemacht ist. Pp. 519-523. <em>In: Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung Coll. (Oken: Jena).</em>
page(s): 522 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Aplysina carnosa Schmidt, 1862) Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 26; pl III 3 [details] OpenAccess publication

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

basis of record 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  PDF available

additional source Augier, H. (1985). Première contribution à l'étude et à la cartographie des biocénoses marines benthiques de l'île de Madère. <em>Boletim do Museu municipal do Funchal.</em> 97, 86-129.
page(s): 101 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 78 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Lopes, M.T. (1985). Les Démosponges littorales de l'Archipel des Açores. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 61(2): 149-225.
page(s): 207 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. <em>Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen).</em> 4: 111-147.
page(s): 139 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Corriero, G. (1989). The sponge fauna from the Stagnone di Marsala (Sicily): taxonomic and ecological observations. <em>Bolletino Museo Istituto Biologia Università Genova.</em> 53: 101-113.
page(s): 103 & 110 [details] 

additional source Corriero, G.; Pansini, M.; Sarà, M. (1984). Sui Poriferi della insenatura della Strea a Porto Cesareo (Lecce). <em>Thalassia Salentina.</em> 14, 1-10.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Costa, G.; Giussani, V.; Kletou, D.; Kleitou, P.; Pansini, M.; Setti, A.; Pronzato, R.; Bertolino, M. (2018). A first preliminary study of the shallow water sponge fauna from Cyprus Island (Eastern Mediterranean). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4450(5): 594., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.7
page(s): 595 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Ðordevic, N.; Petovic, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2012). Marine Caves of the Mediterranean Sea: A Sponge Biodiversity Reservoir within a Biodiversity Hotspot. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 7(7): e39873., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039873
page(s): Table S1; note: note: could be Aplysina cavernicola [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2016). Sponge diversity gradients in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean. <i>In</i>: Schönberg C.H.L., Fromont J., Hooper J.N.A., Sorokin S., Zhang W. & de Voogd N (eds) New Frontiers in Sponge Science. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 96: 407-416., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315415000697
page(s): 5; note: could be Aplysina cavernicola [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Hyatt, A. (1875). Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part I. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 399-408, pl. XIII.
page(s): 406 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of Kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). <em>ICES Journal of Marine Science.</em> 60, 402-10., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s1054-3139(03)00012-2
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Krikech, I.; Le Pennec, G.; Ezziyyani, M. (2022). Preliminary study of the shallow water sponges (Demospongiae) from the north-central Moroccan Mediterranean coast. <em>AACL Bioflux.</em> 15 (1): 305-313.
page(s): Table 2 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source 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): 408-411 [details] 

additional source Lévi, C. (1960). Spongiaires des côtes occidentales africaines. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles).</em> 22 (3): 743-769. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2156 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Lopes, M.T. (1995). Littoral sponges from Selvagem Islands. <em>Boletim do Museu municipal do Funchal.</em> sup 4, 387-394.
page(s): 390 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Nardo, G.D. (1847). Prospetto della fauna marina volgare del Veneto estuario con cenni sulle principali specie commestibili dell'Adriatico, sulle venete pesche, sulle valli, ecc. Pp. 113-156 (1-45 in reprint). <em>In: Venezia e le sue Lagune. Volume Secundo. G. Antonelli: Venezia.</em> [According to Carlo Froglia, the Prospetto and the Sinonimia were published simultaneously; the Sinonimia is here considered to have priority.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53300268 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Naveiro Millán, A. (2002). Poríferos de la costa da Arrábida (Portugal). Clase Demospongiae. <em>Tesina Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela.</em> 165 pp.
page(s): 147-148.Figura 69; note: Misspelled Aplysina aerophoba Schmidt, 1862 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 12 (4): 317-329., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.1991.tb00261.x
page(s): 320 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Roveta, C.; Marrocco, T.; Calcinai, B.; Pulido Mantas, T.; Pica, D.; Valisano, L.; Puce, S. (2022). Unravelling the sponge diversity of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 89(1): 310-323., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2022.2042406
page(s): 314 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 131: 75-86., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.11.003
page(s): Supplementary data [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 25; pl III 2 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V.
page(s): 5 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Topaloglu, B. (2001). A preliminary study on sponge fauna of the north shore of Gökçeada Island. In: Öztürk B, Aysel V, editors. Ulusal Ege Adalari 2001. <em>Toplantisi Bildiriler Kitabi. Istanbul, Turkey: Türk Deniz Arastirmalari Vakfi, .</em> pp. 97–102 (in Turkish).
page(s): 100 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Topsent, E. (1889). Quelques spongiaires du Banc de Campêche et de la Pointe-à-Pître. <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 2: 30-52.
page(s): 46; note: Misapplication [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Topsent, E. (1891). Voyage de la Goëlette ‘Melita' aux Canaries et au Sénégal, 1889-1890. Spongiaires. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 4: 11-15, pl. II.
page(s): 12 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Topsent, E. (1894). Éponges du Golfe de Gabès. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France,.</em> 7: 37-44, pl. I.
page(s): 39 & 44 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Topsent, E. (1934). Etude d'Eponges littorales du Golfe de Gabès. <em>Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche de Castiglione.</em> 1932(2):71-102.
page(s): 5-6 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. (1943). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 854: 1-12.
page(s): 10 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. <em>Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.</em> 159: 205-219. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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

additional source Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Koukouras, A. (1993). Contribution to the knowledge of Keratose sponges (Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, Verongida: Demospongiae, Porifera) of the Aegean Sea. <em>Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin.</em> 69, 57-72., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.4840690105
page(s): 65-66 [details] 

source of synonymy Nardo, G. D. (1834). De Spongiis. <em>Isis (Oken).</em> 714-716. [details] OpenAccess publication

redescription Schulze, F.E. (1878). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Vierte Mittheilung. Die Familie der Aplysinidae. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 30: 379-420, plsXXI-XXIV.
page(s): 386-404 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
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To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Aplysina carnosa Schmidt, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (68 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aplysina aerophoba) 
To GenBank (2770 nucleotides; 17 proteins) 
To PESI (from synonym Aplysina carnosa Schmidt, 1862)
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 086023) 
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