WoRMS taxon details
Placospongiidae Gray, 1867
AphiaID: 131672
AphiaID: 131672
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Hadromerida | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Placospongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 196-200. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Onotoa de Laubenfels, 1955 Genus Placospherastra van Soest, 2009 Genus Placospongia Gray, 1867 Genus Amphinolana Rützler & Hooper, 2000 accepted as Onotoa de Laubenfels, 1955 Genus Physcaphora Hanitsch, 1895 accepted as Placospongia Gray, 1867 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Sponges with amoured surface plates and spherical microscleres <282>. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131672 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Placospongiidae. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131672 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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