Halichondria panicea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Suberitida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Suberitida

Halichondria panicea (Pallas, 1766)

Type data: unknown, probably lost. [All type material of Pallas was destroyed by fire in Küstrin (Poland) in 1758 during the Seven Years’ War fide Wiedenmayer (1977)]
Neotype: BMNH 1964.6.8.6, collected on 28 September 1963. [designated by Erpenbeck & van Soest (2002: 801)]
Type locality: “Mare circa Angliam & Belgium”, redesigned by neotype designation to “Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex” by Erpenbeck & van Soest (2002: 801).

Spongia tomentosa Linnaeus, 1767: 1299 [original combination]
- Type data: unknown.
- Type locality: “Zosteram”.

Spongia cristata Ellis & Solander, 1786: 186
- Type data: unknown. [Unlocated collection fide Stone (1986)]
- Type locality: “eastward of Hastings, in Sussex”.

Spongia urens Ellis & Solander, 1786: 187
- Type data: unknown. [Unlocated collection fide Stone (1986)]
- Type locality: “sea coast of North America”.

Pallas, P.S. 1766. Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae. pp. 451. BHL Reference page.
Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio duodecima, reformata. Tomus 1 (Regnum Animale), Pars 2: 533–1327. Holmiæ [Stockholm]. Impensis Direct Laurentii Salvii. Biblioteca Digital BHL Reference page.
Ellis, J. & Solander, D. 1786. The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes, collected from various parts of the globe by the late John Ellis... Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. B. White & Son: London. xii + 208 pp., 63 plates. BHL Reference page.
Erpenbeck, D. & van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787–815 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page.