Spongites onkodes (Heydrich) Penrose & Woelkerling 1988

Porolithon onkodes (Heydrich) Foslie

Current name: Porolithon onkodes (Heydrich) Foslie
Palau Islands, West Pacific, 3 m deep at outer reef edge - 19 November 2002. Palau International Coral Reef Center

Publication Details
Spongites onkodes (Heydrich) Penrose & Woelkerling 1988: 173 (Table 2) (as 'Spongites wildpretii')

Published in: Penrose, D. & Woelkerling, W.J. (1988). A taxonomic reassessment of Hydrolithon Foslie, Porolithon Foslie and Pseudolithophyllum Lemoine emend. Adey (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) and their relationships to Spongites Kützing. Phycologia 27: 159-176, 27 figs, 2 tables.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Spongites is Spongites fruticulosus Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Porolithon onkodes (Heydrich) Foslie.

Basionym
Lithothamnion onkodes Heydrich

Type Information
Type locality: "An Corallenriffen von den Tami-Inseln, nordwestliche Ecke des Huon-Golfes, Deutsch-Neu-Guinea." [Tami Island, Gulf of Huon, Papua New Guinea]; (Woelkerling 1998: 357) Lectotype (designated by Adey & al., 1982: 9): Georg Bamler; March 1892; TRH; A26-1494; Heydrich no. 97 (Woelkerling 1998: 357) Notes: Isolectotype: PC, unnumbered, General Herbarium box collection (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 03 July 2001 by Sandy Lawson.

Last updated: 23 January 2017

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Nomenclatural note
Womersley (1996: 261) cites Spongites onkodes (Heydrich) Penrose & Woelkerling 1988: 159, figs 10-14. - (21 April 2009) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 23 January 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 17 June 2025

 
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