Ordinary bath sponge
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Common bath sponge ( Spongia officinalis ) |
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| Linnaeus , 1759 |
The common bath sponge ( Spongia officinalis , syn .: Euspongia officinalis ), the best known type of sponges , belongs to the family Spongiidae in the order of the horn sponges and therein to the genus Spongia , which includes about 70 other species. It occurs in the Mediterranean , Atlantic and Indian Oceans .
features
The common bath sponge comes in different shapes, with round ones predominating, at depths between 0.5 and 40 meters. The coloration of the animal varies depending on the depth from yellowish white to black, but is mostly between dark gray and dark brown; the inside is white. In the subspecies (or form ) S. o. Adriatica , the outflow openings are often increased.
use
As the name suggests, the common bath sponge is made into bath sponges . Previously, in the medicine, the powdered skeleton of the bath sponge (called Kropf sponge ) against the bolster used.
entertainment
In the US cartoon series SpongeBob SquarePants , a sponge is the main character in a hodgepodge of typically humanized underwater creatures and their quite childish adventures.
swell
- ↑ Spongia Linnaeus, 1759 in: Rob van Soest, Nicole Boury-Esnault, Dorte Janussen, John Hooper (2005): World Porifera database (as of April 22, 2007)
- ↑ a b Spongia officinalis (Esponja de baño) ( Memento of April 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the pages of the Murcia region (Spanish).
- ↑ a b c FAO Fisheries Department: Sponges: World Production and Markets
- ↑ Thomas Gleinser: Anna von Diesbach's Bernese 'Pharmacopoeia' in the Erlacher version of Daniel von Werdts (1658), Part II: Glossary. (Medical dissertation Würzburg), now at Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1989 (= Würzburg medical-historical research , 46), p. 173.
Web links
- Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 in: Rob van Soest, Nicole Boury-Esnault, Dorte Janussen, John Hooper (2005): World Porifera database (as of April 21, 2007)