Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Dictyoceratida > Family Dysideidae > Genus Dysidea

Dysidea avara (Schmidt, 1862)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dysidea*	Johnston, 1842	accepted genus name
*Collospongelia*	Ferrer Hernández, 1923	synonym
*Duseideia*	Johnston, 1842	synonym
*Spongelia*	Nardo, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Spongelia avara*	Schmidt, 1862	basionym
*Spongelia incrustans var. adriatica*	Czerniavsky, 1880	basionym
*Spongelia incrustans var. suchumensis*	Czerniavsky, 1880	basionym
*Spongelia avara*	Schmidt, 1862	synonym
*Spongelia incrustans var. adriatica*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym
*Spongelia incrustans var. suchumensis*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: roze stekelspons

English: pink sponge sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

French: éponge cavernicole violette sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

German: Höhlenwächterschwamm sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Italian: disidea sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Spanish, Castillian: esponja diside

Literature

original description	Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
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.
additional source	Mustapha, K.B., Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003. Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. Bull. Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30
additional source	Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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: pp. 85-103

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Dysidea avara (Schmidt, 1862). In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132321