MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845)

MSBIAS taxon details

Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845)

AphiaID

132252 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132252)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Sycon Risso, 1827

Original name

Dunstervillia elegans Bowerbank, 1845

Synonymised names

Scypha elegans (Bowerbank, 1845) · unaccepted (genus transfer)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Bowerbank, J.S. (1845). Description of a new genus of Calcareous Sponge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 15 (99): 297-300 ,pl. XVII. [details]

Taxonomic 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. Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132252 on 2025-05-29

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132252 on 2025-05-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Bowerbank, J.S. (1845). Description of a new genus of Calcareous Sponge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 15 (99): 297-300 ,pl. XVII. [details]

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: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Borojevic, R. (1967). Spongiaires d'Afrique du Sud. (2) Calcarea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 37 (3): 183-226.
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additional source Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. pp. 1-44., available online at http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/images/stories/sbr/observation/documents/spongiaires.pdf
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additional source Sarà, M. (1961). La fauna di Poriferi delle grotte delle isole Tremiti. Studio ecologico e sistematico. Archivio zoologico italiano. 46: 1-59,pls I-II.
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additional source Carballo, J.L.; Garcia-Gómez, J.C. (1994). Esponjas del Estrecho de Gibraltar y áreas próximas, con nuevas aportaciones para la fauna Iberica [Porifera from the Straits of Gibraltar and nearby areas, new species of the Iberian fauna]. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 35(2): 193-211. (look up in IMIS)
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additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1918). Esponjas del litoral de Asturias. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Serie Zoologia. 36: 1-39.
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additional source Rützler, K. (1966). Die Poriferen einer sorrentiner Höhle. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Tyrrhenia-Expedition 1952. Teil. XVIII. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 176 (5), 303-319.
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additional source Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias. S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Vacelet, J. (1976). Inventaire des Spongiaires du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). Travaux scientifiques du Parc national de Port-Cros. 2, 167-186.
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additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Chintiroglou, C. C.; Vafidis, D.; Koutsoubas, D.; Sini, M.; Dailianis, T.; Issaris, Y.; Akritopoulou, E.; Dimarchopoulou, D.; Voultsiadou, E. (2015). Census of biodiversity in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Marine Science. 16 (1), 245-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.1069
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additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 1036 pp.
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additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. Marine Biodiversity. 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
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additional source Abdelali, N.; Grimes, S. (2024). Diversity and distribution of Porifera on the Algerian coast (West Mediterranean). Zootaxa. 5512(3): 402-419., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.3.5
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biology source Duboscq, O.; Tuzet, O. (1941). Sur les cellules en croix des Sycon (Sycon ciliatum Fabr., Sycon coronatum Ellis et Sol., Sycon elegans Bower.) et leur signification. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. 81 (4): 151-163. [details] Available for editors