WoRMS taxon details
Spongillidae Gray, 1867
AphiaID: 167108
AphiaID: 167108
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Spongillina (Suborder) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Spongillina | ||||||||||
| 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: Manconi, R.; Pronzato, R. 2002. Suborder Spongillina subord. nov.: Freshwater sponges. Pp. 921-1020. 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: MANCONI R., PRONZATO R. 2009. Atlas of African freshwater sponges. Studies in Afrotropical Zoology Tervuren, Royal Museum for Central Africa, vol. 295, 214 pp [details] additional source: Penney, J.T.; Racek, A.A. 1968. Comprehensive revision of a worldwide collection of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillidae). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 272: 1-184. [details] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Anheteromeyenia Schröder, 1927 Genus Corvoheteromeyenia Ezcurra de Drago, 1979 Genus Corvospongilla Annandale, 1911 Genus Dosilia Gray, 1867 Genus Duosclera Reiswig & Ricciardi, 1993 Genus Ephydatia Lamouroux, 1816 Genus Eunapius Gray, 1867 Genus Heteromeyenia Potts, 1881 Genus Heterorotula Penney & Racek, 1968 Genus Nudospongilla Annandale, 1918 Genus Pachyrotula Volkmer-Ribeiro & Rützler, 1997 Genus Pectispongilla Annandale, 1909 Genus Pottsiela Volkmer-Ribeiro, Souza-Machado, Fürstenau-Oliveira, Vieira-Soares, 2010 Genus Racekiela Bass & Volkmer-Ribeiro, 1998 Genus Radiospongilla Penney & Racek, 1968 Genus Sanidastra Volkmer-Ribeiro & Watanabe, 1983 Genus Saturnospongilla Volkmer-Ribeiro, 1976 Genus Spongilla Lamarck, 1816 Genus Stratospongilla Annandale, 1909 Genus Trochospongilla Vejdovsky, 1888 Genus Umborotula Penney & Racek, 1968 Genus Uruguayella Bonetto & Ezcurra de Drago, 1969 Genus Acanthodiscus Volkmer-Ribeiro, 1996 accepted as Racekiela Bass & Volkmer-Ribeiro, 1998 Genus Carterella Potts, 1881 accepted as Heteromeyenia Potts, 1881 Genus Carterius Petr, 1886 accepted as Heteromeyenia Potts, 1881 Genus Clypeatula Peterson & Addis, 2000 accepted as Ephydatia Lamouroux, 1816 Genus Euspongilla Vejdovsky, 1883 accepted as Spongilla Lamarck, 1816 Genus Meyenia Carter, 1881 accepted as Ephydatia Lamouroux, 1816 Genus Pleiomeyenia Mills, 1884 accepted as Ephydatia Lamouroux, 1816 Genus Trachyspongilla Dybovsky, 1878 accepted as Ephydatia Lamouroux, 1816 Genus Tubella Carter, 1881 accepted as Trochospongilla Vejdovsky, 1888 | ||||||||||
| Environment | |||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | filter feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:167108 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongillidae Gray, 1867. 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=167108 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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