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Hexadella racovitzai Topsent, 1896

132315  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132315)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Topsent, E. (1896). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. (9):113-133.
page(s): 119-120 [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  MNHN DT2804, geounit Western Mediterranean  
Holotype MNHN DT2804, geounit Western Mediterranean [details]
Taxonomic remark Until the work of Reveillaud et al 2012 all pink-violet mediterranean specimens have been allocated to Hexadella...  
Taxonomic remark Until the work of Reveillaud et al 2012 all pink-violet mediterranean specimens have been allocated to Hexadella racovitzai. In fact two species occured one pink Hexadella racovitzai and the second one violet Hexadella topsenti. [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. Hexadella racovitzai Topsent, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132315 on 2025-05-24
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2008-05-13 09:36:53Z
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Nomenclature

original description Topsent, E. (1896). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. (9):113-133.
page(s): 119-120 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002 [2004]). Family Ianthellidae Hyatt, 1875, pp. 1089-1093. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002[2004]). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY 1708+ XVLIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002). Family Ianthellidae Hyatt, 1875, pp. 1089-1093.In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY 1708+ XVLIII. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

redescription Reveillaud, J.; Allewaert, C.; Pérez, T.; Vacelet, J.; Banaigs, B.; Vanreusel, A. (2012). Relevance of an integrative approach for taxonomic revision in sponge taxa: case study of the shallow-water Atlanto-Mediterranean Hexadella species (Porifera: Ianthellidae: Verongida). Invertebrate Systematics. 26, 230–248. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Bermuda) Ritter, J. (2000). The sponges of Bermuda. BBSR - Unpub. report. [details] 

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)
page(s): 196 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Picton, B.E.; Goodwin, C.E. (2007). Sponge biodiversity of Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 87 (6): 1441-1458.
page(s): 1455-1456 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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  PDF available [request]

additional source Bertolino, M.; Bo, M.; Canese, S.; Bavestrello, G.; Pansini, M. (2015). Deep sponge communities of the Gulf of St Eufemia (Calabria, southern Tyrrhenian Sea), with description of two new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95 (07), 1371-1387., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413001380
page(s): 1385 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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.
page(s): 185 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2012). Marine Caves of the Mediterranean Sea: A Sponge Biodiversity Reservoir within a Biodiversity Hotspot. PLoS ONE. 7(7): e39873., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039873
page(s): Table S1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P. (1977). Sponge distribution in coral reefs and related areas in the vicinity of Tulear (Madagascar). Proceedings of the Third International Coral Reef Symposium. 1977, 113-117.
page(s): 115; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Gerovasileiou, V.; Voultsiadou, E. (2016). Sponge diversity gradients in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean. In: Schönberg C.H.L., Fromont J., Hooper J.N.A., Sorokin S., Zhang W. & de Voogd N (eds) New Frontiers in Sponge Science. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 96: 407-416., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315415000697
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. Studia Marina. 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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] OpenAccess publication

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
page(s): 29 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. Vie et Milieu. 22(2): 287-349.
page(s): 333 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Lopes, M.T. (1985). Les Démosponges littorales de l'Archipel des Açores. Annales de l'Institut océanographique. 61(2): 149-225.
page(s): 203 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 3: 1-217.
page(s): 178-179 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Lévi, C. (1957). Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel. 6 B(3-4): 201-212.
page(s): 202 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Morrow, C.C.; Picton, B.E. (1996). An aplysillid sponge Hexadella racovitzai Topsent, 1896, new to the British Isles with notes on its habitat and distribution. The Irish Naturalist's Journal. 25 (6): 218-221.
page(s): 219 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Pansini, M. (1987). Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. In: Vacelet J, Boury-Esnault N (eds) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series G, Ecological Sciences Springer, Heidelberg. 13, 149-185. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 182; note: with a description [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1981 [1980]). The Keratosa in a collection of Mediterranean sponges mainly from the Italian coasts. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. 83: 127-158.
page(s): 154 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Evcen, A.; Özalp, B. (2023). Marine invertebrate fauna (Porifera, Anthozoa) and biodiversity status on the historically important wreck sites of HMS Majestic and Helles Barges (Northern Aegean coast of Türkiye). pp. 56-72 in Öz, M.İ. (Ed.) 2023. Shipwrecks of the Gallipoli Campaign and Protection of Marine Biodiversity. Turkish Marine Research Foundation (TUDAV) Publication no: 69, İstanbul, Türkiye.
page(s): 66 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp. , available online at http://hal-02490465
page(s): 53 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. (1943). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 854: 1-12.
page(s): 10 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. (1976). Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie). 49:1-116, pls I-X.
page(s): 108; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype MNHN DT2804, geounit Western Mediterranean [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Until the work of Reveillaud et al 2012 all pink-violet mediterranean specimens have been allocated to Hexadella racovitzai. In fact two species occured one pink Hexadella racovitzai and the second one violet Hexadella topsenti. [details]
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