description of Mycale (Mycale) lingua - Sheep’s tongue sponge

Ushant, France, 27 meters, 2015, WBN

Ile de Groix, France, 22 meters, 2016, JMC

Ushant, France, 29 meters, 2015, WBN

Classification

Source : World Register of Marine Species
Dernière mise à jour 24-11-2022

Animalia (Kingdom)
Porifera (Phylum)
Demospongiae (Class)
Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
Poecilosclerida (Order)
Mycalidae (Family)
Mycale (Genus)
Mycale (Mycale) (Subgenus)
Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Species)

Authors

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Photos : © Jean-Michel Crouzet. Published with his kind permission.
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Données de distribution : Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-08-14.

Classification

Source : World Register of Marine Species

Dernière mise à jour 24-11-2022

Animalia (Kingdom)
Porifera (Phylum)
Demospongiae (Class)
Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
Poecilosclerida (Order)
Mycalidae (Family)
Mycale (Genus)
Mycale (Mycale) (Subgenus)
Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Species)

Authors

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