Relationships towards this taxonGenus group namesSpecies group names
Alcyonium ficus | sensu Pallas, 1766 | basionym |
Ficulina ficus | (Johnston, 1842) | basionym |
Alcyonium ficus | sensu Pallas, 1766 | synonym |
Ficulina ficus | (Johnston, 1842) | synonym |
Suberites domuncula var. ficus | (Johnston, 1842) | synonym | Vernaculars (+)
(-) Dutch: vijgspons sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp. English: fig sponge sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS) German: Feigenschwamm Literatureoriginal description | Johnston, G. 1842. A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes.(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh): i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV. | basis of record | Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Suberitidae. In: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of the sponges (in 2 volumes). Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York: 1-1708, i-xlviii. | additional source | Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993b. Distribution of sponges on the Mauritanian continental shelf. Pp. 95-106. In:Wolff,W.J., van der Land, J., Nienhuis,P.H. & de Wilde, P.A.W.J. (Eds), Ecological Studies in the Coastal Waters of Mauritania. Hydrobiologia, 258: i-ix, 1-222. | additional source | Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. | additional source | Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 23-46. | 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 | Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. | additional source | Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. | additional source | Uriz, M.J. 1988. Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina 3: 9-157. | 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.; Gibbons, M.J. 2005. Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. African Natural History, 1: 1-96 | additional source | Cuénot, L. 1936. Commensalisme des pontes de Céphalopodes avec des éponges et des cnidaires. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique (2) 3: 37-40. | additional source | Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. | 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 |
Genbank
TaxonomyWoRMS
External LinksMarine Life Information Network - UK USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications) Barcode of Life (1 barcode) GenBank (51 nucleotides; 45 proteins) GBIF
Citationvan Soest, R. (2014). Suberites ficus (Johnston, 1842). 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:134285Image
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Environment marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial
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