WoRMS name details
Halichondria melanadocia de Laubenfels, 1936
191437 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:191437)
alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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.
page(s): 133-134 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 133-134 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Holotype USNM 22463, geounit Floridian
Holotype USNM 22463, geounit Floridian [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. Halichondria melanadocia de Laubenfels, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=191437 on 2025-04-05
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
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.
page(s): 133-134 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Díaz, M.C.; Pomponi, S.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). A systematic revision of the central West Atlantic Halichondrida (Demospongiae, Porifera). Part III: Description of valid species. <i>In</i>: Uriz, M.-J. & Rützler, K. (Eds), Recent Advances in Ecology and Systematics of Sponges. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 57 (4): 283-306. [details]
page(s): 133-134 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Díaz, M.C.; Pomponi, S.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). A systematic revision of the central West Atlantic Halichondrida (Demospongiae, Porifera). Part III: Description of valid species. <i>In</i>: Uriz, M.-J. & Rützler, K. (Eds), Recent Advances in Ecology and Systematics of Sponges. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 57 (4): 283-306. [details]
Other
additional source
Hechtel, G.J. (1965). A systematic study of the Demospongiae of Port Royal, Jamaica. <em>Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.</em> 20: 1-103.
page(s): 52; pl V fig 2 [details]
additional source Alcolado, P.M. 1976. Lista de nuevos registros de Poriferos para Cuba.Serie Oceanológica. Instituto de Oceanologia. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. Oceanologia (36): 1-11.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Little, F.J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology 11(2).</em> 31-71.
page(s): 54 [details]
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): 115 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 149-150 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wintermann-Kilian, G.; Kilian, E.F. (1984). Marine Sponges of the Region of Santa Marta (Colombia). Part II. Homosclerophorida, Choristida, Spirophorida, Hadromerida, Axinellida, Halichondrida, Poecilosclerida. <em>Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment.</em> 19(3): 121-135.
page(s): 132 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 182-185; fig 65 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Díaz, M.C. (2005). Common sponges from shallow marine habitats from Bocas del Toro region, Panama. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 41(3): 465-475. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 470 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Alcolado, PM. (2007). Comunidades de esponjas de manglares de Cuba in: Ecosistemas de manglar en el archipélago cubano, (eds Carrera, LM; Guzman JM). <em>Academia de Cuba, La Habana.</em> pp 243-253.
page(s): 250 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pérez, T. ; Díaz, M.C.; Ruiz, C.; Cóndor-Luján, B.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Zea, S.; Pomponi, S.A.; Thacker, R.W.; Carteron, S.; Tollu, G.; Pouget-Cuvelier, A.; Thélamon, P.; Marechal, J.-P.; Thomas, O.P.; Ereskovsky, A.E.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2017). How a collaborative integrated taxonomic effort has trained new spongiologists and improved knowledge of Martinique Island (French Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea) marine biodiversity. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 12 (3): e0173859., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173859
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Sutherland, J.P. (1980). Dynamics of the Epibenthic Community on Roots of the Mangrove <i>Rhizophora mangle</i>, at Bahia de Buche, Venezuela. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 58: 75-84.
page(s): 76 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 52; pl V fig 2 [details]
additional source Alcolado, P.M. 1976. Lista de nuevos registros de Poriferos para Cuba.Serie Oceanológica. Instituto de Oceanologia. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. Oceanologia (36): 1-11.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Little, F.J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology 11(2).</em> 31-71.
page(s): 54 [details]
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): 115 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. <em>Experientia Supplementum.</em> 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
page(s): 149-150 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wintermann-Kilian, G.; Kilian, E.F. (1984). Marine Sponges of the Region of Santa Marta (Colombia). Part II. Homosclerophorida, Choristida, Spirophorida, Hadromerida, Axinellida, Halichondrida, Poecilosclerida. <em>Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment.</em> 19(3): 121-135.
page(s): 132 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. , available online at http://ISBN 958-9068-05-7
page(s): 182-185; fig 65 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Díaz, M.C. (2005). Common sponges from shallow marine habitats from Bocas del Toro region, Panama. <em>Caribbean Journal of Science.</em> 41(3): 465-475. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 470 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. <i>in</i>: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Alcolado, PM. (2007). Comunidades de esponjas de manglares de Cuba in: Ecosistemas de manglar en el archipélago cubano, (eds Carrera, LM; Guzman JM). <em>Academia de Cuba, La Habana.</em> pp 243-253.
page(s): 250 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pérez, T. ; Díaz, M.C.; Ruiz, C.; Cóndor-Luján, B.; Klautau, M.; Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Zea, S.; Pomponi, S.A.; Thacker, R.W.; Carteron, S.; Tollu, G.; Pouget-Cuvelier, A.; Thélamon, P.; Marechal, J.-P.; Thomas, O.P.; Ereskovsky, A.E.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2017). How a collaborative integrated taxonomic effort has trained new spongiologists and improved knowledge of Martinique Island (French Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea) marine biodiversity. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 12 (3): e0173859., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173859
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Sutherland, J.P. (1980). Dynamics of the Epibenthic Community on Roots of the Mangrove <i>Rhizophora mangle</i>, at Bahia de Buche, Venezuela. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 58: 75-84.
page(s): 76 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 22463, geounit Floridian [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Spelling Spelled as above in the heading of the description by De Laubenfels (p. 133), but also as Halichondria melanodocia on the next page (p. 134). The wrong spelling is found occasionally in later works. [details]
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Halichondria melanadocia)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (27 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 22463)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 085103)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Halichondria melanadocia)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (27 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (Holotype USNM 22463)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 085103)
To ITIS
