Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Chondrosida > Family Chondrillidae > Genus Chondrosia

Chondrosia reniformis Nardo, 1847

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chondrosia*	Nardo, 1847	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: esponja de cuir; patata de mar sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona;TermCat, The Center for Terminology.

French: éponge-cuir; éponge-rognon sources: TermCat, The Center for Terminology.

Italian: spugna patata

Portuguese: esponja de vidro

Spanish, Castillian: esponja de cuero

Literature

original description	Nardo, G.D. 1847a. Prospetto della fauna marina volgare del Veneto Estuario con cenni sulle principali specie commestibili dell’Adriatico,sulle venete pesche, sulle valli, ecc. Pp. 113-156 (1-45 in reprint). In:Venezia e le sue lagune. (G. Antonelli: Venezia).
additional source	Topsent, E. 1897a. Spongiaires de la Baie d’Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l’Archipel Malais). Revue suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487, pls 18-21.
additional source	Burton, M. 1933b. Report on a small collection of sponges from Stil Bay, S. Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 11: 235-244.
additional source	Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 pp.
additional source	Kirkpatrick, R. 1900a. On the Sponges of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 127-141, pls XII-XIII.
additional source	Lévi, C. 1957a. Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel 6 B(3-4): 201-212.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219.
additional source	Samaai, T. 2006. Biodiversity "hotspots", patterns of richness and endemism, and distribution of marine sponges in South Africa based on actual and interpolation data: A comparative approach. Zootaxa 1358: 1-37.
additional source	Mustapha, K.B., Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003. Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. Bull. Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30
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: pp. 85-103
additional source	Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147.
additional source	Lévi, C. 1952. Spongiaires de la côte du Sénégal. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles) 14(1): 34-59.
additional source	Lévi, C. 1959a. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’. Campagne de la ‘Calypso’ dans le Golfe de Guinée et aux îles Principe, São Tomé et Annobon. 5. Spongiaires. Annales de l’Institut océanographique 37 (4): 115-141, pls 5-6.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (85 publications)
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
The Sponge Guide
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Chondrosia reniformis. 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:134112