Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida > Family Syconidae > Genus Sycon

Sycon humboldti Risso, 1827

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sycon*	Risso, 1827	accepted genus name
*Dunstervillia*	Bowerbank, 1845	synonym
*Homoderma*	Lendenfeld, 1885	synonym
*Scypha*	Gray, 1821	synonym
*Sycarium*	Haeckel, 1869	synonym
*Syconella*	Schmidt, 1868	synonym
*Sycortis*	Haeckel, 1872	synonym
*Sycum*	Agassiz, 1846	synonym

Species group names

*Sycon humboldtii*		orthographic variant

Literature

original description	Risso, A. (1827). Histoire Naturelle des Principales Productions de l'Europe Méridionale et Particulièrement de Celles des Environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome V. Paris: F.-G. Levrault. i-viii + 1-403 pp., [pls. 1-10], figs. 1-62.
additional source	Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 1036 pp.
additional source	Laubier, L. (1966). Le coralligène des Albères. Monographie biocénotique. The coralligenous of the Albères. Biocenotic monograph.]. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco, Nouvelle Série. 43:137-316, figs. 1-12, plates I-VI, maps 1-2.
additional source	Lieberkühn, N. (1859). Neue Beiträge zur Anatomie der Spongien. Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie. 30(3): 353-382, 515-529, pls IX-XI.
additional source	Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103.

Genbank

Citation

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. Sycon humboldti Risso, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132254