Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Poecilosclerida > Family Mycalidae > Genus Mycale > Subgenus Mycale (Aegogropila)

Mycale (Aegogropila) contarenii (Lieberkühn, 1859)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Halichondria Fleming, 1828

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mycale*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Mycale contareni*		orthographic variant
*Mycale (Aegogropila) irregularis*	(Czerniavsky, 1880)	synonym
*Mycale contareni var. flava*	(Czerniavsky, 1880)	synonym
*Mycale contareni var. pontica*	(Czerniavsky, 1880)	synonym
*Mycale contarenii*	(Lieberkühn, 1859)	synonym; alternate representation
*Mycale foraminosa*	(Schmidt, 1862)	synonym
*Mycale foraminosa var. dura*	(Czerniavsky, 1880)	synonym
*Mycale foraminosa var. pontica*	(Czerniavsky, 1880)	synonym
*Mycale irregularis*	(Czerniavsky, 1880)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society. 1-175.
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. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Topsent, E. (1924). Révision des Mycales de l'Europe occidentale. Annales de l'Institut océanographique. 1(3): 77-118.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
additional source	Martens, G.M. Von. (1824). Reise nach Venedig. Stettin'schen Buchhandlung.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1936). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Deuxième partie). Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 686: 1-7.
additional source	Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of Kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). ICES Journal of Marine Science. 60, 402-10.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Voogd, N.J. (2014). Mycale species (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) of Northwest Africa and the Macaronesian Islands. Zoölogische Mededelingen Leiden. 88 (4): 59-109.
additional source	Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp.
additional source	Evcen, A.; Çinar, M.E. (2012). Sponge (Porifera) species from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey (Levantine Sea, eastern Mediterranean), with a checklist of sponges from the coasts of Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology,. 36, 460-464.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1932). Remarques sur des Eponges de l'estuaire de la Rance. Bulletin du Laboratoire maritime du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Saint-Servan. 8: 1-7.

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. Mycale (Aegogropila) contarenii (Lieberkühn, 1859). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168526