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

PetrosiaVosmaer, 1885accepted 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).

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

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

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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Last modified

2008-02-02 by Rob van Soest

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