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Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842)

134285  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134285)

accepted
Species
Ficulina ficus (Johnston, 1842) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. <em>(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh).</em> i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35290582
page(s): 144-146 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Carballo, J.L.; 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.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2023). World Porifera Database. Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134285 on 2023-09-26
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023). European Register of Marine Species. Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=134285 on 2023-09-26
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2005-09-09 16:45:37Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-09-07 19:12:58Z
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van Soest, Rob W.M.

original description  (of ) Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. <em>(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh).</em> i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35290582
page(s): 144-146 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Suberitidae. Pp 227-244 <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). <i>Systema Porifera - a guide to the classification of the sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York: 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Suberitidae. Pp 227-244 <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). <i>Systema Porifera - a guide to the classification of the sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York: 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). <em>A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society.</em> 1-175.
page(s): 60-61 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Fristedt, K. (1885). Bidrag till Kännedomen om de vid Sveriges vestra Kust lefvande Spongiae. <em>Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar.</em> 21: 1-56, pls I-IV.
page(s): 20-21 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Hanitsch, R. (1890). Third Report on the Porifera of the L.M.B.C.District. <em>Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society.</em> 4: 192-238, pls X-XV.
page(s): 216 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Hiscock, K.; Stone, S.M.K.; George, J.D. (1984). The marine fauna of Lundy. Porifera (sponges): a preliminary study. <em>Report Lundy Field Society.</em> 34: 16-35.
page(s): 20-21 [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): 14-15 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Uriz, M.J. (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. <em>Monografías de Zoología Marina.</em> 3: 9-157.
page(s): 37; note: Misapplication [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

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. (1993). Distribution of sponges on the Mauritanian continental shelf. <i>In</i>:Wolff,W.J., van der Land, J., Nienhuis,P.H. & de Wilde, P.A.W.J. (Eds), Ecological Studies in the Coastal Waters of Mauritania. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 258: 95-106. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Suberitidae (Demospongiae, Hadromerida) from the North Aegean Sea. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 43 (11): 176-186. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 179 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]   

additional source Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J. (2005). Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. <em>African Natural History.</em> 1: 1-96.
page(s): 28; note: Misapplication: This record concerns Suberites dandelenae Samaai & Maduray, 2017. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46.
note: misapplication, not primary source [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Topsent, E. (1891). Spongaires des côtes océaniques de France. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 6: 125-129.
page(s): 127 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Hanitsch, R. (1891). Notes on some sponges collected by Professor Herdman off the west coast of Ireland from the 'Argo'. <em>Transactions of the Biological Society of Liverpool.</em> 5: 213-222.
page(s): 219 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Stone, S.M.: Boardley. E.; Gill, M. (1987). Field characteristics of some conspicuous sublittoral sponges from Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland. <i>In</i>: Jones WC (ed) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. <em>Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station.</em> 1: 130-140. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Cuénot, L. 1936. Commensalisme des pontes de Céphalopodes avec des éponges et des cnidaires. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique (2) 3: 37-40. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

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 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.
page(s): 321 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Uriz, M.J. (1983). Monografía I. Contribución a la fauna de esponjas (Demospongia) de Cataluña. <em>Anales de la Sección Ciencias del Colegio Universitario de Gerona.</em> 7: 1-220.
page(s): 80-92 [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 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. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

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 Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

redescription Samaai, T.; Maduray, S.; Janson, L.; Gibbons, M.J.; Ngwakum, B.; Teske, P.R. (2017). A new species of habitat–forming <i>Suberites</i> (Porifera, Demospongiae, Suberitida) in the Benguela upwelling region (South Africa). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4254 (1): 49–81., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4254.1.3
page(s): 69-70 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

biology source Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Erpenbeck, D.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Maggs, C.; Allcock, A. (2012). Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 62(1): 174-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.016
page(s): 177 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
 
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From editor or global species database
Original description Johnston's Halichondria ficus is the first recognizable description and depiction of the sponge generally considered as Suberites ficus in the recent literature. [details]
LanguageName 
Dutch vijgspons  [details]
English fig sponge  [details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland 
Marine Life Information Network - UK 
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications) (from synonym Ficulina ficus (Johnston, 1842))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) 
To GenBank (55 nucleotides; 48 proteins) 
To PESI (from synonym Ficulina ficus (Johnston, 1842))
To PESI (from synonym Suberites domuncula var. ficus (Johnston, 1842))
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (3 records) (from synonym Ficulina ficus (Johnston, 1842))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (45 records) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 033711) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 033711)
To Yale Peabody Mus...
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