Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida > Family Syconidae

Sycon Risso, 1827

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dunstervillia*	Bowerbank, 1845	synonym
*Homoderma*	Lendenfeld, 1885	synonym
*Scypha*	Gray, 1821	synonym
*Sycarium*	Haeckel, 1869	synonym
*Syconella*	Schmidt, 1868	synonym
*Sycortis*	Haeckel, 1872	synonym
*Sycum*	Agassiz, 1846	synonym

Children

Sycon abyssale Borojevic & Graat-Kleeton, 1965
Sycon asperum (Gibson, 1886)
Sycon boreale (Schuffner, 1877)
Sycon ciliatum (Fabricius, 1780)
Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845)
Sycon faulkneri Ilan, Gugel, Galil & Janussen, 2003
Sycon helleri (Lendenfeld, 1891)
Sycon humboldti Risso, 1827
Sycon lingua (Haeckel, 1870)
Sycon quadrangulatum (Schmidt, 1868)
Sycon raphanus Schmidt, 1862
Sycon scaldiense (Van Koolwijk, 1982)
Sycon schmidti (Haeckel, 1872)
Sycon schuffneri Dendy & Row, 1913
Sycon setosum Schmidt, 1862
Sycon sycandra (Lendenfeld, 1895)
Sycon tuba Lendenfeld, 1891
Sycon villosum (Haeckel, 1870)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: hairy tube-sponges

Literature

original description	Risso, A. (1827). Histoire Naturelle des Principales Productions de l'Europe Méridionale et Particulièrement de Celles des Environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome V. Paris: F.-G. Levrault. i-viii + 1-403 pp., [pls. 1-10], figs. 1-62.
basis of record	Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M.; Vacelet, J. (2002 [2004]). Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. Pp. 1157-11884. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). 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).
basis of record	Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M.; Vacelet, J. (2002). Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958. Pp. 1157-1184. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (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).
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.
status source	Van Soest, R.W.M; Klautau, M. (2021). Case 3836 – Sycon Risso, 1827 (Porifera, Sycettidae): proposed conservation of the genus name. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 78(2): 69-77.

Genbank

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 Risso, 1827. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131723