''Gelliodes fibrosa'' is a species of

sponge Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through t ...

found in shallow water in the Indian Ocean. It was first described in 1905 by the British zoologist Arthur Dendy, the type locality being the

Gulf of Mannar The Gulf of Mannar ( ) is a large shallow bay forming part of the Laccadive Sea in the Indian Ocean with an average depth of .

, Sri Lanka. In 1925, the American zoologist Edmund Beecher Wilson described a species of sponge from

North Sulawesi North Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the Minahasa Peninsula of Sulawesi, south of the Philippines and southeast of Sabah, Malaysia. It borders the Philippine province of Davao Occidental and Soccsks ...

as ''Gelliodes fibrosa''. In 2013, Carballo, Aquilar-Camacho, Knapp & Bell, decided that this was a

homonym In linguistics, homonyms are words which are homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of pronunciation), or homophones (equivocal words, that share the same pronunciation, regardless of spelling), or both. Using this definition, ...

, a separate taxon from the original one described by Dendy, and gave the new species the name ''Gelliodes wilsoni''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1964979 Haplosclerida Sponges described in 1905 Taxa named by Arthur Dendy