WoRMS taxon details
Ecionemia Bowerbank, 1862
131990 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131990)
accepted
Genus
Ecionemia acervus Bowerbank, 1862 (type by monotypy)
Ecionema Bowerbank, 1862 · unaccepted (misspelling of genus name)
Hezekia de Laubenfels, 1934 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Thalassomora Lendenfeld, 1888 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia acervus Bowerbank, 1862
- Species Ecionemia alata (Dendy, 1924)
- Species Ecionemia arabica (Lévi, 1958)
- Species Ecionemia australiensis (Carter, 1883)
- Species Ecionemia baculifera (Kirkpatrick, 1903)
- Species Ecionemia cinerea Thiele, 1900
- Species Ecionemia demera (de Laubenfels, 1934)
- Species Ecionemia densa Bowerbank, 1873
- Species Ecionemia nigra Sollas, 1888
- Species Ecionemia novaezealandiae (Dendy, 1924)
- Species Ecionemia obtusum Lendenfeld, 1907
- Species Ecionemia spinastra Lévi, 1958
- Species Ecionemia thielei Thomas, 1986
- Species Ecionemia walkeri (de Laubenfels, 1954)
- Species Ecionemia agglutinans Thiele, 1899 accepted as Ecionemia acervus Bowerbank, 1862 (junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia amboinensis Lendenfeld, 1903 accepted as Ecionemia acervus Bowerbank, 1862 (junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia bacillifera (Carter, 1887) accepted as Ecionemia acervus Bowerbank, 1862 (junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia carteri Dendy, 1905 accepted as Ecionemia acervus Bowerbank, 1862 (junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia cherbonnieri (Lévi, 1961) accepted as Stellettinopsis cherbonnieri Lévi, 1961 (reverted genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia coactura Bowerbank, 1874 accepted as Stelletta grubii Schmidt, 1862 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia compressa Bowerbank, 1866 accepted as Poecillastra compressa (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia corticata (Carter, 1879) accepted as Stellettinopsis corticata Carter, 1879 (reverted genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia cribrosa Thiele, 1900 accepted as Ecionemia acervus Bowerbank, 1862 (junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia dominicana (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986) accepted as Stellettinopsis megastylifera (Wintermann-Kilian & Kilian, 1984) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia geodides (Carter, 1886) accepted as Ancorina geodides (Carter, 1886) (genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia hilgendorfi Thiele, 1898 accepted as Penares hilgendorfi (Thiele, 1898) (genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia laviniensis Dendy, 1905 accepted as Stellettinopsis laviniensis (Dendy, 1905) (genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia megastylifera Wintermann-Kilian & Kilian, 1984 accepted as Stellettinopsis megastylifera (Wintermann-Kilian & Kilian, 1984) (genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia metastrosa (Lebwohl, 1914) accepted as Penares metastrosa (Lebwohl, 1914) accepted as Penares metastrosus (Lebwohl, 1914) (genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia nigrescens Thiele, 1900 accepted as Ecionemia cinerea Thiele, 1900 (junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia ponderosa Bowerbank, 1866 accepted as Stryphnus ponderosus (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia pyriformis Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta pyriformis (Sollas, 1886)
- Species Ecionemia ridleyi Sollas, 1886 accepted as Stelletta ridleyi (Sollas, 1886)
- Species Ecionemia robusta (Carter, 1883) accepted as Ancorina robusta (Carter, 1883) (genus transfer)
- Species Ecionemia rotunda Sollas, 1888 accepted as Ecionemia acervus Bowerbank, 1862 (junior synonym)
- Species Ecionemia solida (Lévi, 1965) accepted as Stellettinopsis solida Lévi, 1965 (reverted genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV.
page(s): 1101 [details]
page(s): 1101 [details]
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. Ecionemia Bowerbank, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131990 on 2025-04-05
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original description
Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.</em> 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV.
page(s): 1101 [details]
original description (of Hezekia de Laubenfels, 1934) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1934). New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 91(17): 1-28.
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Thalassomora Lendenfeld, 1888) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12. [details]
basis of record Bowerbank, J.S. (1864). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 1. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-290, pls I-XXXVII. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1883085
page(s): 164 [details]
basis of record Uriz, M.J. (2002). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 108-126. <em>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 Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xvliii, ISBN 0-306-47260-0. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Uriz, M.J. (2002[2004]). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 108-126. <em>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 Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 1101 [details]
original description (of Hezekia de Laubenfels, 1934) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1934). New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 91(17): 1-28.
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Thalassomora Lendenfeld, 1888) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12. [details]
basis of record Bowerbank, J.S. (1864). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 1. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-290, pls I-XXXVII. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1883085
page(s): 164 [details]
basis of record Uriz, M.J. (2002). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 108-126. <em>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 Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xvliii, ISBN 0-306-47260-0. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

basis of record Uriz, M.J. (2002[2004]). Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 108-126. <em>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 Publ., New York.</em> 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

Other
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] 



