WoRMS taxon details
Sclerospongiae
AphiaID: 196313
AphiaID: 196313
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) |
| Authority | Hartman & Goreau, 1970 | |||||||||||||
| Status |  unaccepted (disused) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Demospongiae | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Class | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Porifera | |||||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Hartman, W.D.; Goreau, T.F. 1970. Jamaican Coralline Sponges:their Morphology, Ecology and Fossil Relatives. Pp. 205-243. In: Fry,W.G. (Ed.), The Biology of the Porifera. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 25. (Academic Press: London): 1-512. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Note |
This 'class' was erected in 1970 by Hartman & Goreau as a follow up of their rediscovery of Ceratoporella and other coralline sponges in deep reef caves off Jamaica. Coralline sponges build a solid limestone basal skeleton but their soft tissues and spicules are closely similar to non-coralline sponges, leading - after a long scientific debate in which both paleontologists and neontologists took part - to the conclusion that the 'class' is polyphyletic. Many textbooks and databases still continue to recognize sclerosponges as a separate group. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196313 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Sclerospongiae. 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=196313 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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