Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Hadromerida > Family Polymastiidae > Genus Polymastia

Polymastia penicillus (Montagu, 1814)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polymastia*	Bowerbank, 1864	accepted genus name
*Rinalda*	Schmidt, 1870	synonym

Species group names

*Euplectella mammillaris*	(Mueller, 1806)	basionym
*Spongia penicillus*	Montagu, 1814	basionym
*Euplectella mammillaris*	(Mueller, 1806)	synonym
*Spongia penicillus*	Montagu, 1814	synonym

Literature

original description	Montagu, G. 1814. An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI.
basis of record	Morrow, C.; Boury-Esnault, N. 2000. Redescription of the type species of the genus Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864 (Porifera,Demospongiae, Hadromerida). Zoosystema 22(2): 327-335.
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N. 2002. Family Polymastiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 201-219. 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).
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N. 1974. Structure et ultrastructure des papilles d'éponges du genre Polymastia Bowerbank. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale & générale, 115(1), 141-165
additional source	Stone, S. M., Boardley, E., and Gill, M. 1987 Field characteristics of some conspicuous sublittoral sponges from Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland. in European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges, Jones W.C. (ed.). Publications of the Sherkin island marine station, 1: 130-140
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N. 1987. The Polymastia species (Demosponges, Hadromerida) of the Atlantic Area. Pp. 29-66. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332.
additional source	Levinsen, G.M.R. 1887. Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI.

Genbank

Taxonomy

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External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Polymastia penicillus (Montagu, 1814). 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:170654