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Geodia barretti Bowerbank, 1858

134023  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134023)

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Cydonium barretti (Bowerbank, 1858) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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Bowerbank, J.S. (1858). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI.
page(s): 290, 291, 293, 307, pl XXIII figs 50, 51, 52, pl XXV fig 13 [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  BMNH 1877.5.21.1399, geounit Southern Norway  
Holotype BMNH 1877.5.21.1399, geounit Southern Norway [details]
Note Western Norway, South side of Vikna Island...  
Type locality Western Norway, South side of Vikna Island (formerly called Vigten or Vikten Island), North Trøndelag, 183 m [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. Geodia barretti Bowerbank, 1858. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134023 on 2025-05-25
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Nomenclature

original description Bowerbank, J.S. (1858). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI.
page(s): 290, 291, 293, 307, pl XXIII figs 50, 51, 52, pl XXV fig 13 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Geodia simplicissima Burton, 1931) Burton, M. (1931). The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. Tromsø Museum Skrifter. 1 (13): 1-8.
page(s): 2-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Sollas, W.J. (1880). The sponge-fauna of Norway; a Report on the Rev. A.M. Norman's Collection of Sponges from the Norwegian Coast. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (5) 5(27): 130-144, pls VI-VII; 241-259, pls X-XII; (29) 396-409, pl. XVII.
page(s): 247-257 [details] OpenAccess publication

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2013). Disrupted spiculogenesis in deep-water Geodiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae) growing in shallow waters. Invertebrate Biology. 132 (3): 173-194., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12027 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

redescription Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T.: Klitgaard, A.B.; Best, M.; Thollesson, M.; Tendal, O.S. (2013). Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169, 251-311., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12056 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V.
page(s): 10 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Voultsiadou, E.; Vafidis, D. (2004). Rare sponge (Porifera: Demospongiae) species from the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 84 (3): 593-598.
page(s): 594; note: Misapplication: This record is believed to be Geodia conchilega, new identification by Cárdenas et al. (2013). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1918). Esponjas del litoral de Asturias. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Serie Zoologia. 36: 1-39.
page(s): 18 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II.
page(s): 489 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Fristedt, K. (1887). Sponges from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the Behring Sea. Vega-Expeditionens Vetenskap. Iakttagelser (Nordenskiöld) 4. 401-471, pls 22-31.
page(s): 463; note: Species name misspelled as baretti [details] OpenAccess publication

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 Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg). Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1994). Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d'Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 160: 1-174., available online at http://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/ged/viewportalpublished.ashx?eid=IFD_FICJOINT_MNHN_MMNHN_S000_1994_T160_N000_1
page(s): 38-39; fig 17 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2015). Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95(7), 1475-1516., available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9887026&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0025315415000983
page(s): 1480 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Boavida, J.; Paulo, D.; Aurelle, D.; Arnaud-Haond, S.; Marschal, C.; Reed, J.; Gonçalves, J. M. S.; Serrão, E. A. (2016). A Well-Kept Treasure at Depth: Precious Red Coral Rediscovered in Atlantic Deep Coral Gardens (SW Portugal) after 300 Years. PLOS ONE. 11(1): e0147228., available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147228
note: Misapplication: Specimens identified as "cf. Geodia barretti". In fact, these specimens are Petrosia sp. (new identification by Paco Cárdenas, March 2016). [details] 

additional source Cárdenas, P.; Moore, J.A. (2019). First records of Geodia demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens. Marine Biodiversity. 49 (1): 163-174., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-017-0775-3
note: Only one sample was studied. A few morphological differences were noted with a typical Geodia barretti. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 1036 pp.
page(s): 227-229; Lám. 5b [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9. 1-102.
page(s): 81 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Periasamy, R.; Cárdenas, P.; Kurian, P.J.; Ingole, B.; Samaai, T. (2023). Is the North Atlantic Geodia barretti (Porifera, Tetractinellida, Geodiidae) present on the Southwest Indian Ridge?. Zootaxa. 5380(5): 461-474., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5380.5.3
note: Identification as Geodia cf. barretti. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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Holotype BMNH 1877.5.21.1399, geounit Southern Norway [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Western Norway, South side of Vikna Island (formerly called Vigten or Vikten Island), North Trøndelag, 183 m [details]

From regional or thematic species database
Habitat Eurybathic species found on infralittoral, circalittoral and bathyal bottoms. Bathymeric range 31-2000 m. Water temperature range: 0.4-15 degrees Celsius. [details]
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English Barrett's horny sponge  [details]
French éponge de Barrett  [details]
Norwegian kålrabisvamp  [details]
Swedish futbollssvampdjur  [details]
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