WoRMS taxon details
Suberites massa Nardo, 1847
134296 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134296)
accepted
Species
Halichondria flava Lieberkühn, 1859 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Hymeniacidon pachyderma Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted
Lithumena lobatus Renier, 1828 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Suberanthus flavus (Lieberkühn, 1859) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Suberites carnosus f. depressus Topsent, 1900 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Suberites carnosus f. flavus (Lieberkühn, 1859) · unaccepted
Suberites crustula (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Suberites flavus (Lieberkühn, 1859) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Suberites lobatus (Renier in Lieberkühn, 1859) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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] 
Type locality contained in Adriatic Sea
type locality contained in Adriatic 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. Suberites massa Nardo, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134296 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
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] 
original description (of Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866) 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): 185-187 [details]
original description (of Lithumena lobatus Renier, 1828) Renier, S. A. (1828). Elementi di zoologia. Venedig, 1828. [details]
original description (of Halichondria flava Lieberkühn, 1859) Lieberkühn, N. (1859). Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. <em>Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie.</em> 30(3): 353-382, 515-529, pls IX-XI.
page(s): 521; pl XI fig. 5 [details]
original description (of Suberites carnosus f. depressus Topsent, 1900) Topsent, E. (1900). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III.Monaxonida (Hadromerina). <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 8: 1-331, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 235, 237, 239; note: Topsent gives the name as a trinomen, but it is clear fom his treatment of Suberites carnosus that he intended to describe growth forms. [details]
original description (of Hymeniacidon pachyderma Bowerbank, 1866) 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): 184-185 [details]
original description (of Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866) 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): 185-187 [details]
original description (of Lithumena lobatus Renier, 1828) Renier, S. A. (1828). Elementi di zoologia. Venedig, 1828. [details]
original description (of Halichondria flava Lieberkühn, 1859) Lieberkühn, N. (1859). Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. <em>Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie.</em> 30(3): 353-382, 515-529, pls IX-XI.
page(s): 521; pl XI fig. 5 [details]
original description (of Suberites carnosus f. depressus Topsent, 1900) Topsent, E. (1900). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III.Monaxonida (Hadromerina). <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (3) 8: 1-331, pls I-VIII.
page(s): 235, 237, 239; note: Topsent gives the name as a trinomen, but it is clear fom his treatment of Suberites carnosus that he intended to describe growth forms. [details]
original description (of Hymeniacidon pachyderma Bowerbank, 1866) 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): 184-185 [details]
Other
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.
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Marra, M.V.; Bertolino, M.; Pansini, M.; Giacobbe, S.; Manconi, R.; Pronzato, R. (2016). Long-term turnover of the sponge fauna in Faro Lake (North-East Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). <em>Italian Journal of Zoology.</em> 1-10., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2016.1251981
page(s): 4 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Barnathan, G.; Kornprobst, J.-M.; Doumenq, P.; Miralles, J.; Boury-Esnault N. (1993). Sponge fatty acids, 5. Characterization of complete series of 2-hydroxy long-chain fatty acids in phospholipids of two senegalense marine sponges from the family Suberitidae : <i>Pseudosuberites</i> sp. and <i>Suberites massa</i>. <em>Journal of natural Products.</em> 56(12): 2104-2113.
page(s): 2112 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp. , available online at http://hal-02490465
page(s): 25 [details] Available for editors
[request]
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] Available for editors
[request]
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 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): 61-62 [details]
additional source Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.</em> pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Lendenfeld, R. von. (1898). Die Clavulina der Adria. <em>Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae germanicae naturaecuriosorum.</em> 69: 1-251, pls I-XII.
page(s): 126-130; pl IV fig 39-41; pl VII fig 78, pl XI fig 192-194, pl XII fig 195 [details]
additional source Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 67; pl VII fig 1 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 632-633 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1932). Remarques sur des Eponges de l'estuaire de la Rance. <em>Bulletin du Laboratoire maritime du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Saint-Servan.</em> 8: 1-7.
page(s): 2 & 3 [details]
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): 180-182; fig 1-3 [details]
additional source Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. <em>Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Topsent, E. (1925). Éponges de l'Étang de Thau. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 452, 1-42.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors
[request]
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
[request]
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors

additional source Marra, M.V.; Bertolino, M.; Pansini, M.; Giacobbe, S.; Manconi, R.; Pronzato, R. (2016). Long-term turnover of the sponge fauna in Faro Lake (North-East Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). <em>Italian Journal of Zoology.</em> 1-10., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2016.1251981
page(s): 4 [details] Available for editors

additional source Barnathan, G.; Kornprobst, J.-M.; Doumenq, P.; Miralles, J.; Boury-Esnault N. (1993). Sponge fatty acids, 5. Characterization of complete series of 2-hydroxy long-chain fatty acids in phospholipids of two senegalense marine sponges from the family Suberitidae : <i>Pseudosuberites</i> sp. and <i>Suberites massa</i>. <em>Journal of natural Products.</em> 56(12): 2104-2113.
page(s): 2112 [details] Available for editors

additional source Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp. , available online at http://hal-02490465
page(s): 25 [details] Available for editors

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] Available for editors

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 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): 61-62 [details]
additional source Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. <em>Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.</em> pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors

additional source Lendenfeld, R. von. (1898). Die Clavulina der Adria. <em>Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae germanicae naturaecuriosorum.</em> 69: 1-251, pls I-XII.
page(s): 126-130; pl IV fig 39-41; pl VII fig 78, pl XI fig 192-194, pl XII fig 195 [details]
additional source Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
page(s): 67; pl VII fig 1 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
page(s): 632-633 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1932). Remarques sur des Eponges de l'estuaire de la Rance. <em>Bulletin du Laboratoire maritime du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Saint-Servan.</em> 8: 1-7.
page(s): 2 & 3 [details]
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): 180-182; fig 1-3 [details]
additional source Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. <em>Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Topsent, E. (1925). Éponges de l'Étang de Thau. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 452, 1-42.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors

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






Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Suberites crustula (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Suberites flavus (Lieberkühn, 1859))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Suberanthus flavus (Lieberkühn, 1859))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Suberites lobatus (Renier in Lieberkühn, 1859))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Suberites massa)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Lithumena lobatus Renier, 1828)
To PESI (from synonym Suberites lobatus (Renier in Lieberkühn, 1859))
To PESI (from synonym Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866)
To PESI (from synonym Suberites crustula (Bowerbank, 1866))
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records) (from synonym Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866)
To ITIS
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Suberites crustula (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Suberites flavus (Lieberkühn, 1859))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Suberanthus flavus (Lieberkühn, 1859))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Suberites lobatus (Renier in Lieberkühn, 1859))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Suberites massa)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Lithumena lobatus Renier, 1828)
To PESI (from synonym Suberites lobatus (Renier in Lieberkühn, 1859))
To PESI (from synonym Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866)
To PESI (from synonym Suberites crustula (Bowerbank, 1866))
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records) (from synonym Hymeniacidon crustula Bowerbank, 1866)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Image from synonym