RAS taxon details
Mycale Gray, 1867
131907 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131907)
accepted
Genus
- Subgenus Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867
- Subgenus Mycale (Anomomycale) Topsent, 1924
- Subgenus Mycale (Carmia) Gray, 1867
- Subgenus Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867
- Species Mycale (Mycale) bouryesnaultae Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021
- Species Mycale (Mycale) gaussiana Hentschel, 1914
- Species Mycale (Mycale) mauricei Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021
- Species Mycale (Mycale) profunda Koltun, 1964
- Species Mycale (Mycale) tridens Hentschel, 1914
- Species Mycale (Mycale) fibrosa Boury-Esnault & Van Beveren, 1982 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) bouryesnaultae Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021 (junior homonym)
- Species Mycale (Mycale) macrochela Burton, 1932 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) mauricei Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021 (preoccupied)
- Subgenus Mycale (Oxymycale) Hentschel, 1929
- Species Mycale fibrosa Boury-Esnault & van Beveren, 1982 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) bouryesnaultae Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021 (preoccupied and subgenus transfer)
- Species Mycale macrochela Burton, 1932 accepted as Mycale (Mycale) mauricei Van Soest, Aryasari & De Voogd, 2021 (preoccupied and subgenus assignment)
- Species Mycale acerata Kirkpatrick, 1907 represented as Mycale (Oxymycale) acerata Kirkpatrick, 1907 (subgenus assignment)
- Species Mycale gaussiana Hentschel, 1914 represented as Mycale (Mycale) gaussiana Hentschel, 1914 (subgenus assignment)
- Species Mycale magellanica (Ridley, 1881) represented as Mycale (Aegogropila) magellanica (Ridley, 1881) (subgenus assignment)
- Species Mycale profunda Koltun, 1964 represented as Mycale (Mycale) profunda Koltun, 1964 (subgenus assignment)
- Species Mycale tridens Hentschel, 1914 represented as Mycale (Mycale) tridens Hentschel, 1914 (subgenus assignment)
- Species Mycale tylotornota Koltun, 1964 represented as Mycale (Oxymycale) tylotornota Koltun, 1964 (subgenus assignment)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] 
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 Gray, 1867. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131907 on 2025-09-11
RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Mycale Gray, 1867. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131907 on 2025-09-11
Date
action
by
original description
Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <i>In</i>: 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). [details] Available for editors
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
redescription Topsent, E. (1924). Révision des Mycales de l'Europe occidentale. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 1(3): 77-118. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <i>In</i>: 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). [details] Available for editors
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
redescription Topsent, E. (1924). Révision des Mycales de l'Europe occidentale. <em>Annales de l'Institut océanographique.</em> 1(3): 77-118. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mycale)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 005556.PR)
To ITIS
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 005556.PR)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Image from typetaxon
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Image from typetaxon
Image from typetaxon
