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

Sycon lingua (Haeckel, 1870)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sycortis Haeckel, 1872

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sycon*	Risso, 1827	accepted genus name
*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

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: elliptical calcareous sponge sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: éponge ovée

Literature

additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.

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 lingua (Haeckel, 1870). 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:132255