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Porifera taxon details

Spongiidae Gray, 1867 
AphiaID: 131626

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Dictyoceratida
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: Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. 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] [full text]

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]

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 Genus Coscinoderma Carter, 1883
Genus Evenor Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Genus Hippospongia Schulze, 1879
Genus Hyattella Lendenfeld, 1888
Genus Leiosella Lendenfeld, 1888
Genus Rhopaloeides Thompson, Murphy, Bergquist & Evans, 1987
Genus Spongia Linnaeus, 1759

Genus Aphrodite Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Hippospongia Schulze, 1879
Genus Ceratodendron Marshall, 1877 accepted as Hippospongia Schulze, 1879
Genus Ditela Schmidt, 1862 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759
Genus Euspongia Bronn, 1859 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759
Genus Hippiospongia de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Hippospongia Schulze, 1879
Genus Luffariospongia Burton, 1937 accepted as Hyattella Lendenfeld, 1888
Genus Silicifibris Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Hippospongia Schulze, 1879
Genus Trypespongia de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Hyattella Lendenfeld, 1888
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131626
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2008-05-12 16:53:41Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongiidae. 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: 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 at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=131626 on 2013-05-25
  


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