Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida > Family Sycettidae

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
Syconella Schmidt, 1868 synonym
Sycortis Haeckel, 1872 synonym
Sycum Agassiz, 1846 synonym

Children

Sycon abyssale Borojevic & Graat-Kleeton, 1965
Sycon arcticum (Haeckel, 1870)
Sycon asperum (Gibson, 1886)
Sycon boreale (Schuffner, 1877)
Sycon ciliatum (Fabricius, 1780)
Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845)
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 tenellum Lendenfeld, 1891
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, Vol. 5 [imprint 1826]: i-vii, 1-403, Plates 1-10. F.-G. Levrault, Paris.

basis of record

Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M.; Vacelet, J. (2002). Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 1157-1184

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

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Sycon Risso, 1827. 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:131723

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2012-10-18 by Rob van Soest

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