WoRMS name details
Choanites Mantell, 1822 sensu de Laubenfels, 1936
184638 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:184638)
unaccepted (technically a tunicate)
Genus
Alcyonium ficus sensu Linnaeus, 1767 (type by monotypy)
- Species Choanites ficus (Johnston, 1842) accepted as Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842) (genus transfer)
- Species Choanites luetkeni (Schmidt, 1870) accepted as Suberites virgultosus (Johnston, 1842) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Species Choanites mineri Laubenfels, 1935 accepted as Suberites mineri (Laubenfels, 1935) (genus transfer)
- Species Choanites spermatozoon (Schmidt, 1875) accepted as Suberites spermatozoon (Schmidt, 1875) (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Mantell, G. (1822). The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. <em>Lupton Relfe: London.</em> 1-328, pls. I-XLII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31183328
page(s): 178 [details]
page(s): 178 [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. Choanites Mantell, 1822 sensu de Laubenfels, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=184638 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Mantell, G. (1822). The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. <em>Lupton Relfe: London.</em> 1-328, pls. I-XLII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31183328
page(s): 178 [details]
original description (of Alcyonium ficus Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. [List of zoophytes containing general outlines of genera and brief descriptions of known species, with selected synonyms of the authors.]. <em>Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae.</em> 451 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361
page(s): 356-357 [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Suberitidae. Pp 227-244 <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). <i>Systema Porifera - a guide to the classification of the sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York: 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
page(s): 242 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 178 [details]
original description (of Alcyonium ficus Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. [List of zoophytes containing general outlines of genera and brief descriptions of known species, with selected synonyms of the authors.]. <em>Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae.</em> 451 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361
page(s): 356-357 [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Suberitidae. Pp 227-244 <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). <i>Systema Porifera - a guide to the classification of the sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York: 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
page(s): 242 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] Available for editors
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Identification Mantell (1822, p. 178) indicated Alcyonium ficus sensu Linnaeus, 1767 as the type of Choanites, followed by a description of a fossil assumed to belong to Linnaeus' Alcyonium ficus. It is generally acknowledged that Alcyonium ficus Pallas, 1766 and also Linnaeus' 1767 record concern a tunicate, not a sponge, making Choanites a genus of the Tunicata. Assignments by various authors of Suberites species to Choanites thus need (re-)transfer to Suberites. [details]
