(ofSpongia compressa Fabricius, 1780)Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe. xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285[details]
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. Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=132181 on 2025-05-31
original description(ofSpongia compressa Fabricius, 1780)Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe. xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285[details]
original description(ofGrantia polymorpha Haeckel, 1872)Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).[details]
original description(ofArtynas rhopalodes Haeckel, 1870)Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).[details]
original description(ofSpongia foliacea Montagu, 1814)Montagu, G. (1814 [1818]). 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., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761 page(s): 92-93 [details]
original description(ofSycandra pennigera Haeckel, 1872)Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).[details]
original description(ofSycophyllum lobata Haeckel, 1870)Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).[details]
original description(ofSycum lingua Haeckel, 1870)Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).[details]
original description(ofSycandra compressa var. rhopalodes Haeckel, 1872)Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).[details]
original description(ofSycandra compressa var. pennigera Haeckel, 1872)Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).[details]
original description(ofSycandra compressa var. polymorpha Haeckel, 1872)Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).[details]
original description(ofSpongia tubulosa sensu Pallas, 1766)Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. [List of zoophytes containing general outlines of genera and brief descriptions of known species, with selected synonyms of the authors.]. Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae. 451 pp., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361 page(s): 393 [details]
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source of synonymyArnesen, E. (1900). Spongier fra den norske kyst I. Calcarea. Bergens Museum Aarbog. 5: 1-46, 1 pl. page(s): 21-22 [details]
new combination referenceFleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 page(s): 524-525 [details]
biology sourceGallissian, M.-F. (1980). Etude ultrastructurale de la fécondation chez Grantia compressa F. International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction. 2: 321-329.[details] Available for editors [request]
biology sourceGallissian, M.-F. (1983). Etude ultrastructurale du développement embryonnaiea chez Grantia compressa F (Porifera, Calcarea). Archives d'Anatomie microscopique. 72 (1): 59-75.[details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record(ofSpongia compressa Fabricius, 1780)Grant, R.E. (1826). Remarks on the structures of some Calcareous Sponges. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 1: 166-170. page(s): 166-168 [details]
additional source(ofSpongia compressa Fabricius, 1780)Linnaeus, C. (1788). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characteristic differences, synonyms, and places.]. Editio decima tertia, aucta reformata. Cura J.F. Gmelin. G.E. Beer, Lipsiae. 1(5-6):2225-3909., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2896589 page(s): 3825 [details]
additional source(ofScypha compressa (Fabricius, 1780))Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source(ofSpongia compressa Fabricius, 1780)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: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source(ofLeuconia compressa (Fabricius, 1780))Grant, R.E. (1841). Porifera. Pp. 5-9, 310-313, pls II-IV. In: H. Bailliere (Ed.), Outlines of comparative anatomy. 1. London. 1-656. page(s): 7 [details]
additional source(ofSycandra compressa (Fabricius, 1780))Hanitsch, R. (1889). Second Report on the Porifera of the L.M.B.C.District. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society. 3: 155-173, pls V-VII. page(s): 172 [details]
additional source(ofSycon compressum (Fabricius, 1780))Breitfuss, L. (1896). Kalkschwämme der Bremer Expedition nach Ost-Spitzbergen im Jahre 1889 (Prof. W. Kükenthal und Dr. A. Walter). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 19 (513): 426-432. page(s): 429 [details]
additional source(ofSycon compressum (Fabricius, 1780))Stephens, J. (1912). A Biological Survey of Clare Island in the County of Mayo, Ireland and the Adjoining District. Marine Porifera. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 31 (Section 3, Part 59): 1-42. page(s): 12 [details]
source of synonymy(ofScypha compressa (Fabricius, 1780))Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy(ofSpongia foliacea Montagu, 1814)Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 page(s): 524-525 [details]
new combination reference(ofSycandra compressa (Fabricius, 1780))Haeckel, E. (1870). Prodromus of a system of the Calcareous sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 5: 176-191.[details]
new combination reference(ofSycon compressum (Fabricius, 1780))Topsent, E. (1894). Etude sur la faune des Spongiaires du Pas-de-Calais, suivie d'une Application de la Nomenclature actuelle à la Monographie de Bowerbank. Revue biologique du Nord de la France. 7:6-28.[details]
new combination reference(ofLeuconia compressa (Fabricius, 1780))Grant, R.E. (1833). On the classification of organs of animals and the organs of support in animalcules and poripherous animals. pp. 193–200 in: University of London, Lectures on comparative anatomy and animal physiology. The Lancet 1833–4 (1) [5 Oct. 1833]: 193-200. page(s): 199 [details]
new combination reference(ofGrantia pennigera (Haeckel, 1872))Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II.[details] Available for editors [request]
biology source(ofGrantia compressa var. pennigera (Haeckel, 1872))Duboscq, O.; Tuzet, O. (1938). L'origine et l'évolution des cellules en croix des éponges calcaires. in: Volume jubilaire Maurice Caullery. Travaux de la Station Zoologique de Wimereux. 13: 267-277.[details] Available for editors [request]
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