Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Poecilosclerida > Family Mycalidae > Genus Mycale > Subgenus Mycale (Mycale)

Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Raphiodesma Bowerbank, 1874

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mycale*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name
*Mycale (Aegogropila)*	Gray, 1867	taxonomically included in
*Mycale (Anomomycale)*	Topsent, 1924	taxonomically included in
*Mycale (Carmia)*	Gray, 1867	taxonomically included in
*Mycale (Mycale)*	Gray, 1867	taxonomically included in
*Mycale (Naviculina)*	Gray, 1867	taxonomically included in
*Mycale (Oxymycale)*	Hentschel, 1929	taxonomically included in
*Mycale (Paresperella)*	Dendy, 1905	taxonomically included in
*Mycale (Rhaphidotheca)*	Kent, 1870	taxonomically included in
*Mycale lobimana*	(Czerniavsky, 1880)	taxonomically included in
*Mycale muscoides*	(Czerniavsky, 1880)	taxonomically included in

Species group names

*Mycale lingua*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	synonym; alternate representation
*Mycale placoides*	(Carter, 1876)	synonym
*Mycale vosmaeri*	(Levinsen, 1887)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Topsent, E. (1924). Révision des Mycales de l'Europe occidentale. Annales de l'Institut océanographique. 1(3): 77-118.
basis of record	Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society. 1-175.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. 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 Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. Marine Biodiversity. 48(4): 2151-2163.
additional source	Dinn, C.; Edinger, E.; Leys, S.P. (2019). Sponge (Porifera) fauna of Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Canada with the description of an Iophon rich sponge garden. Zootaxa. 4576(2): 301-325.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Voogd, N.J. (2014). Mycale species (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) of Northwest Africa and the Macaronesian Islands. Zoölogische Mededelingen Leiden. 88 (4): 59-109.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco. 74:1-376, pls I-XI.
additional source	Evcen, A.; Çinar, M.E. (2012). Sponge (Porifera) species from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey (Levantine Sea, eastern Mediterranean), with a checklist of sponges from the coasts of Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology,. 36, 460-464.

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. Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866). 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:168640