MSBIAS taxon details

Demospongiae 
AphiaID: 164811

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Porifera
Authority Sollas, 1885
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Class
Parent Porifera
Sources  original description: Sollas, W.J. 1885b. A Classification of the Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 16(95): 395. [details]

basis of record: Sollas, W.J. 1885c. A Classification of the Sponges. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series) 5: 112. [details]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Class Demospongiae Sollas, 1885, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 15-18 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-306-47260-0. xix, 1-1101, 1103-1706 (2 volumes) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Chombard, C.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Tillier, A.; Vacelet, J.1997. Polyphyly of ‘Sclerosponges’ (Porifera, Demospongiae) Supported by 28S Ribosomal Sequences. Biological Bulletin 193:359-367. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Boury-Esnault, N. (2006). Systematics and evolution of Demospongiae. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84, 205-224, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/Z06-003 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English demosponges  [details]
English horny sponges  [details]
Direct child
taxa		 Order Agelasida
Order Astrophorida
Order Chondrosida
Order Dendroceratida
Order Dictyoceratida
Order Hadromerida
Order Halichondrida
Order Haplosclerida
Order 'Lithistida'
Order Poecilosclerida
Order Spirophorida
Order Verongida

Order Halisarcida accepted as Chondrosida
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164811
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2005-11-07 21:03:01Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2005-11-07 21:14:01Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2006-01-04 08:36:27Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2009-11-20 14:36:03Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Demospongiae. 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: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2013) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at http://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=164811 on 2013-05-25