WoRMS taxon details
Polymastia spinula Bowerbank, 1866
134212 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134212)
accepted
Species
Axinella mammillata Hanitsch, 1890 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 66-68 [details]
page(s): 66-68 [details]
Holotype BMNH 10.1.1.1833, geounit North Sea
Holotype BMNH 10.1.1.1833, geounit North Sea [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. Polymastia spinula Bowerbank, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134212 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 66-68 [details]
original description (of Axinella mammillata Hanitsch, 1890) 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): 209-212 [details]
page(s): 66-68 [details]
original description (of Axinella mammillata Hanitsch, 1890) 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): 209-212 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Boury-Esnault, N. (1987). The <i>Polymastia</i> species (Demospnges, Hadromerida) of the Atlantic area. <i>In: </i>Vacelet J, Boury-Esnault N (eds) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. <em>NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series G, Ecological Sciences. Springer, Heidelberg,.</em> 13: 29-66. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 46-48 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 46-48 [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] 
additional source Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 27-28, Pl XI 10-13 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1892). Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 2: 1-165, pls I-XI.
page(s): 131 [details]
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
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additional source Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 27-28, Pl XI 10-13 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1892). Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 2: 1-165, pls I-XI.
page(s): 131 [details]
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





