WoRMS taxon details
Mycale (Carmia) macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866)
168587 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168587)
accepted
Species
Carmia macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Esperella floreum (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Esperella hamata Topsent, 1892 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Esperella macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Esperia macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Esperia sentinella Schmidt, 1868 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Hymeniacidon floreum Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Mycale fallaciosum (Bowerbank, 1862) · unaccepted
Mycale hamata (Topsent, 1892) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866) · alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Mycale sentinella (Schmidt, 1868) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Raphiodesma fallaciosum Bowerbank, 1882 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Rhaphiodesma floreum · unaccepted (genus transfer, misspelling of...)
genus transfer, misspelling of genus name and junior synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Hymeniacidon macilenta 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): 176-177 [details]
page(s): 176-177 [details]
Holotype (of Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)...
Holotype (of Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866) BMNH 1910.1.1.135, geounit Celtic Seas [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. Mycale (Carmia) macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=168587 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Hymeniacidon floreum 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): 190-193 [details]
original description (of Hymeniacidon macilenta 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): 176-177 [details]
original description (of Esperella hamata Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Diagnoses d'éponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (2) 10 (Notes et Revue 6) xvii-xxviii.
page(s): XXI [details]
original description (of Esperia sentinella Schmidt, 1868) Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V.
page(s): 30; pl V fig 11 [details]
original description (of Raphiodesma fallaciosum Bowerbank, 1882) Bowerbank, J.S.; Norman, A.M. (1882). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 4 (Supplement). (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-250, pls I-XVII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1908675
page(s): 163-166 [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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basis of record 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): 112-113 [details]
page(s): 190-193 [details]
original description (of Hymeniacidon macilenta 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): 176-177 [details]
original description (of Esperella hamata Topsent, 1892) Topsent, E. (1892). Diagnoses d'éponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> (2) 10 (Notes et Revue 6) xvii-xxviii.
page(s): XXI [details]
original description (of Esperia sentinella Schmidt, 1868) Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V.
page(s): 30; pl V fig 11 [details]
original description (of Raphiodesma fallaciosum Bowerbank, 1882) Bowerbank, J.S.; Norman, A.M. (1882). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 4 (Supplement). (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-250, pls I-XVII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1908675
page(s): 163-166 [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

basis of record 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): 112-113 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Topsent, E. (1924). Révision des Mycales de l'Europe occidentale. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 1(3): 77-118.
page(s): 105-109; fig 11-12; note: and also source of synonymy [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 105-109; fig 11-12; note: and also source of synonymy [details] Available for editors

Other
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 Topsent, E. (1936). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Deuxième partie). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 686: 1-7.
page(s): 11 [details]
additional source Zintzen, V. (2007). Biodiversity of shipwrecks from the Southern Bight of the North Sea. PhD Thesis. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturellles de Belgique/Université Catholique de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve. 343 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46.
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
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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
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additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Voogd, N.J. (2014). <i>Mycale</i> species (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) of Northwest Africa and the Macaronesian Islands. <em>Zoölogische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 88 (4): 59-109.
page(s): 84 [details]
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 Pestana, R.; Ribeiro, C.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Biscoito, M. (2018). Systematic account of new Porifera (Demospongiae) records from the oceanic Island of Madeira (NE Atlantic). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4402(2): 395-400., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4402.2.11
page(s): 397 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 2 & 3 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1936). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Deuxième partie). <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 686: 1-7.
page(s): 11 [details]
additional source Zintzen, V. (2007). Biodiversity of shipwrecks from the Southern Bight of the North Sea. PhD Thesis. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturellles de Belgique/Université Catholique de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve. 343 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46.
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors

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

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Voogd, N.J. (2014). <i>Mycale</i> species (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) of Northwest Africa and the Macaronesian Islands. <em>Zoölogische Mededelingen Leiden.</em> 88 (4): 59-109.
page(s): 84 [details]
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

additional source Pestana, R.; Ribeiro, C.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Biscoito, M. (2018). Systematic account of new Porifera (Demospongiae) records from the oceanic Island of Madeira (NE Atlantic). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4402(2): 395-400., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4402.2.11
page(s): 397 [details] Available for editors






Holotype (of Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866) BMNH 1910.1.1.135, geounit Celtic Seas [details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Barcode of Life (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Esperella hamata Topsent, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Mycale hamata (Topsent, 1892))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Raphiodesma fallaciosum Bowerbank, 1882)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Hymeniacidon floreum Bowerbank, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Esperella macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mycale macilenta) (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Esperella hamata Topsent, 1892)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To PESI (from synonym Mycale hamata (Topsent, 1892))
To PESI (from synonym Hymeniacidon floreum Bowerbank, 1866)
To PESI (from synonym Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Carmia macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 5083) (from synonym Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 5231) (from synonym Raphiodesma fallaciosum Bowerbank, 1882)
To Barcode of Life (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Esperella hamata Topsent, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Mycale hamata (Topsent, 1892))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Raphiodesma fallaciosum Bowerbank, 1882)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Hymeniacidon floreum Bowerbank, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Esperella macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mycale macilenta) (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Esperella hamata Topsent, 1892)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To PESI (from synonym Mycale hamata (Topsent, 1892))
To PESI (from synonym Hymeniacidon floreum Bowerbank, 1866)
To PESI (from synonym Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (1 record) (from synonym Carmia macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 5083) (from synonym Hymeniacidon macilenta Bowerbank, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 5231) (from synonym Raphiodesma fallaciosum Bowerbank, 1882)