Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Keratosa > Order Dictyoceratida > Family Irciniidae > Genus Ircinia

Ircinia strobilina (Lamarck, 1816)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Spongia Linnaeus, 1759

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ircinia*	Nardo, 1833	accepted genus name
*Filifera*	Lieberkühn, 1859	synonym
*Hircinia*	Nardo, 1834	synonym

Species group names

*Ircinia verrucosa*	(Lieberkühn, 1869)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bumpy ball sponge; cake sponge; loggerhead sponge; pillow stinking sponge sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Schwarzer Schwammball

Literature

basis of record	Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. Experientia Supplementum. 28: 1-287, pls 1-43.
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additional source	Little, F.J. Jr. (1963). The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. Tulane Studies in Zoology 11(2). 31-71.
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additional source	Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1986). A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. 86: 65-216.
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additional source	Lizarazo, N.; Zea, S. (2024). Sponges in the continental shelf (73 – 210 m) of the southwestern area of Isla Fuerte and Alta Guajira, with the description of new records for the Colombian Caribbean. Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. 53(1): 87-116.
additional source	Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1950). The Porifera of the Bermuda archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 27(1): 1-154.
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additional source	Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313.
additional source	Cortès, J.; van der Hal, N.; van Soest, R.W.M. 2009. Sponges. in: Wehrtmann, I.S. & Cortès, J. (eds). Marine biodiversity of Costa Rica. Springer Science + Business Media, pp. 137-142 + Appendix on CD: Species list 6.1.
additional source	Collette, B.B.; Rützler, K. 1977. Reef fishes over sponge bottoms off the mouth of the Amazon River. Proceedings 3rd International Coral Reef Symposium Miami, Florida, U.S.A. pp. 305-310.
additional source	Rützler, K.; Díaz, M.C.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Zea, S.; Smith, K.P.; Alvarez, B.; Wulff, J. (2000). Diversity of sponge fauna in mangrove ponds, Pelican Cays, Belize. Atoll Research Bulletin. 476: 230-248.
additional source	Alcolado, PM. (2007). Comunidades de esponjas de manglares de Cuba in: Ecosistemas de manglar en el archipélago cubano, (eds Carrera, LM; Guzman JM). Academia de Cuba, La Habana. pp 243-253.
additional source	Rützler, K.; Piantoni, C.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Díaz, M.C. (2014). Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. Zootaxa. 3805(1): 1-129.
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.
additional source	Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. Beaufortia. 48 (5): 71-103.
additional source	Hoppe, W. (1988). Growth, regeneration and predation in three species of large coral reef sponges. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 50: 117-125.
additional source	Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1949). Sponges of the western Bahamas. American Museum Novitates. 1431: 1-25.
additional source	Zea, S. (1987). Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico: Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286.
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additional source	Díaz, M.C. (2005). Common sponges from shallow marine habitats from Bocas del Toro region, Panama. Caribbean Journal of Science. 41(3): 465-475.
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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. Ircinia strobilina (Lamarck, 1816). 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:165051