Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Mycalina > Family Mycalidae > Genus Mycale > Subgenus Mycale (Mycale)

Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mycale*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Esperella vosmaeri*	Levinsen, 1887	basionym
*Raphiodesma lingua*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	basionym
*Esperella vosmaeri*	Levinsen, 1887	synonym
*Mycale lingua*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	synonym; alternate representation
*Mycale placoides*	(Carter, 1876)	synonym
*Mycale vosmaeri*	(Levinsen, 1887)	synonym
*Raphiodesma lingua*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	synonym

Literature

original description	Bowerbank, J.S. 1866a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866). In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168640