Porifera taxon details
Merlia normani Kirkpatrick, 1908
168482 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168482)
accepted
Species
Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Kirkpatrick, R. (1908). On Two new Genera of Recent Pharetronid Sponges. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 2 (12): 503-514,pls XIII-XV.
page(s): 510-513 [details]
page(s): 510-513 [details]
Type locality contained in Azores Canaries Madeira
type locality contained in Azores Canaries Madeira [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. (2024). World Porifera Database. Merlia normani Kirkpatrick, 1908. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=168482 on 2024-11-09
original description
Kirkpatrick, R. (1908). On Two new Genera of Recent Pharetronid Sponges. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 2 (12): 503-514,pls XIII-XV.
page(s): 510-513 [details]
original description (of Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909) Kirkpatrick, R. (1909). Notes on <i>Merlia normani</i>, Kirkpatrick. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 4: 42-48.
page(s): 48 [details]
basis of record Kirkpatrick, R. (1910). Further notes on <i>Merlia normani</i>, Kirkp. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 5: 288-291. [details]
basis of record Kirkpatrick, R. (1911). On <i>Merlia normani</i>, a Sponge with a Siliceous and Calcareous Skeleton. <em>Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.</em> 56 (4): 657-702. [details]
additional source Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 752-755 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1972 [1970]). Report on a collection of sponges from the Bay of Naples. 1. Sclerospongiae, Lithistida, Tetractinellida, Epipolasida. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 38 (2): 328-354.
page(s): 332-333; fig 2 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 535 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1986). A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 86: 65-216.
page(s): 137; note: Misapplication: without calcareous skeleton [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Vacelet, J. (1961). Quelques Eponges remarquables de Méditerranée. <em>Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches maritimes.</em> 25 (3): 351-354. [details]
additional source Vacelet, J. (1967). Quelques Eponges Pharétronides et ‘Silico-calcaires'de grottes sous-marines obscures. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 42(58): 121-132, pl. 1.
page(s): 129 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P. (1971). Éponges des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Madagascar). <em>Téthys.</em> Supplément 1: 51-126.
page(s): 115 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1984). Deficient <i>Merlia normani</i> Kirkpatrick, 1908, from the Curaçao reefs, with a discussion on the phylogenetic interpretation of sclerosponges. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 54 (2): 211-219. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. pp. 691-693. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002). <em>Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes).</em> Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]
additional source Lehnert, H. (1993). Die Schwämme von Cozumel (Mexiko). Bestandsaufnahme, kritischer Vergleich taxonomischer Merkmale, und Beschreibung einer neuen Art (The sponges from Cozumel (Mexico). Inventory, critical comparison of taxonomic characters and description of a new species. <em>Acta Biolologica Benrodis.</em> 5: 35-127 (in German, with abstracts in German and English).
page(s): 56-58 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. <em>Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 31: 1-39.
page(s): 26 [details]
additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rützler, K.; Piantoni, C.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Díaz, M.C. (2014). Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3805(1): 1-129., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3805.1.1
page(s): 70 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Ruggiero, D.; Pansini, M. (2000). The sponge community of a semi-submerged Mediterranean cave. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 21 (1), 85-96.
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Gristina, M.; Riggio, S.; Mercurio, M. (1997). Composizione tassonomica e distribuzione della fauna e Poriferi e Briozoi in una grotta semisommersa della riserva naturale marina "Isola di Ustica". <em>Biologia Marina Mediterranea.</em> 4 (1), 34-43.
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Calcinai, B.; Sacco Perasso, C.; Davidde Petriaggi, B.; Ricci, S. (2019). Endolithic and epilithic sponges of archaeological marble statues recovered in the Blue Grotto, Capri (Italy) and in the Antikythera shipwreck (Greece). <em>Facies.</em> 65(2)., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10347-019-0562-7
page(s): 5 & 11 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. pp. 691-693. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes).</em> Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 22(2): 287-349.
page(s): 299 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. <em>Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen).</em> 4: 111-147.
page(s): 142 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gautret, P.; Vacelet, J.; Cuif, J.-P. (1991). Caractéristiques des spicules et du squelette carbonaté des espèces actuelles du genre <i>Merlia</i> (Démosponges, Merliida), et comparaison avec des Chaetétides fossiles. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.</em> (4 A) 13(3-4): 289-307.
page(s): 291 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy (of Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909) Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. pp. 691-693. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes).</em> Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
page(s): 691 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy (of Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909) Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. pp. 691-693. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002). <em>Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes).</em> Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
page(s): 691 [details]
page(s): 510-513 [details]
original description (of Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909) Kirkpatrick, R. (1909). Notes on <i>Merlia normani</i>, Kirkpatrick. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 4: 42-48.
page(s): 48 [details]
basis of record Kirkpatrick, R. (1910). Further notes on <i>Merlia normani</i>, Kirkp. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 5: 288-291. [details]
basis of record Kirkpatrick, R. (1911). On <i>Merlia normani</i>, a Sponge with a Siliceous and Calcareous Skeleton. <em>Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.</em> 56 (4): 657-702. [details]
additional source Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. <em>Téthys.</em> 3(4): 717-758.
page(s): 752-755 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1972 [1970]). Report on a collection of sponges from the Bay of Naples. 1. Sclerospongiae, Lithistida, Tetractinellida, Epipolasida. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli.</em> 38 (2): 328-354.
page(s): 332-333; fig 2 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 535 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1986). A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 86: 65-216.
page(s): 137; note: Misapplication: without calcareous skeleton [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Vacelet, J. (1961). Quelques Eponges remarquables de Méditerranée. <em>Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches maritimes.</em> 25 (3): 351-354. [details]
additional source Vacelet, J. (1967). Quelques Eponges Pharétronides et ‘Silico-calcaires'de grottes sous-marines obscures. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume.</em> 42(58): 121-132, pl. 1.
page(s): 129 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P. (1971). Éponges des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Madagascar). <em>Téthys.</em> Supplément 1: 51-126.
page(s): 115 [details]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1984). Deficient <i>Merlia normani</i> Kirkpatrick, 1908, from the Curaçao reefs, with a discussion on the phylogenetic interpretation of sclerosponges. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 54 (2): 211-219. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. pp. 691-693. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002). <em>Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes).</em> Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details]
additional source Lehnert, H. (1993). Die Schwämme von Cozumel (Mexiko). Bestandsaufnahme, kritischer Vergleich taxonomischer Merkmale, und Beschreibung einer neuen Art (The sponges from Cozumel (Mexico). Inventory, critical comparison of taxonomic characters and description of a new species. <em>Acta Biolologica Benrodis.</em> 5: 35-127 (in German, with abstracts in German and English).
page(s): 56-58 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (1981). A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. <em>Verslagen en Technische Gegevens Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum) Universiteit van Amsterdam.</em> 31: 1-39.
page(s): 26 [details]
additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. <em>Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias.</em> S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rützler, K.; Piantoni, C.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Díaz, M.C. (2014). Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3805(1): 1-129., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3805.1.1
page(s): 70 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Ruggiero, D.; Pansini, M. (2000). The sponge community of a semi-submerged Mediterranean cave. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 21 (1), 85-96.
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Corriero, G.; Scalera-Liaci, L.; Gristina, M.; Riggio, S.; Mercurio, M. (1997). Composizione tassonomica e distribuzione della fauna e Poriferi e Briozoi in una grotta semisommersa della riserva naturale marina "Isola di Ustica". <em>Biologia Marina Mediterranea.</em> 4 (1), 34-43.
page(s): 37 [details]
additional source Calcinai, B.; Sacco Perasso, C.; Davidde Petriaggi, B.; Ricci, S. (2019). Endolithic and epilithic sponges of archaeological marble statues recovered in the Blue Grotto, Capri (Italy) and in the Antikythera shipwreck (Greece). <em>Facies.</em> 65(2)., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10347-019-0562-7
page(s): 5 & 11 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. <em>Studia Marina.</em> 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. pp. 691-693. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes).</em> Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 22(2): 287-349.
page(s): 299 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. <em>Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen).</em> 4: 111-147.
page(s): 142 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gautret, P.; Vacelet, J.; Cuif, J.-P. (1991). Caractéristiques des spicules et du squelette carbonaté des espèces actuelles du genre <i>Merlia</i> (Démosponges, Merliida), et comparaison avec des Chaetétides fossiles. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.</em> (4 A) 13(3-4): 289-307.
page(s): 291 [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy (of Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909) Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. pp. 691-693. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes).</em> Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
page(s): 691 [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy (of Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909) Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908. pp. 691-693. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002). <em>Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges (2 volumes).</em> Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
page(s): 691 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Holotype BMNH 1911.4.7.10 [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Merlia normani)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (6 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 090807)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Noronha scalariformis Kirkpatrick, 1909)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Merlia normani)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (6 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 090807)
