Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Haplosclerida > Suborder Petrosina > Family Petrosiidae > Genus Petrosia > Subgenus Petrosia (Petrosia)

Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis (Poiret, 1789)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Petrosia*	Vosmaer, 1885	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Petrosia ficiformis*	(Poiret, 1789)	synonym; alternate representation

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: esponja de pedra; petrosia sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Dutch: harde vijgspons

English: stony sponge

French: éponge pierre sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Italian: spugna petrosia

Spanish, Castillian: petrosia dura

Literature

original description	Poiret, J.L.M. 1789a. Voyage en Barbarie, ou Lettres Ecrites del’Ancienne Numidie pendant les Années 1785 et 1786, avec un Essai sur l’Histoire naturelle de ce Pays. Deuxième Partie. 1. (Paris): 1-315.
basis of record	Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. 2002. Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. 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

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External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis (Poiret, 1789). 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:166837