Deep-Sea taxon details
Verongimorpha
597811 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:597811)
Erpenbeck, Sutcliffe, De Cook, Dietzel, Maldonado, van Soest, Hooper & Wörheide, 2012
accepted
Subclass
- Order Chondrillida
- Order Chondrosiida
- Order Verongiida
- Order Chondrosida accepted as Chondrosiida (misspelling of order name)
- Order Verongida accepted as Verongiida (adaptation of order name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Erpenbeck, D.; Sutcliffe, P.; Cook, S. de C.; Dietzel, A.; Maldonado, M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Wörheide, G. (2012). Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 63 (3): 809-816., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.024 [details] Available for editors 
Taxonomy Prior to Lévi's (1955) rearrangement of the Demosponge orders the name Keratosa was used to accommodate sponges lacking...
Taxonomy Prior to Lévi's (1955) rearrangement of the Demosponge orders the name Keratosa was used to accommodate sponges lacking spicules and provided with spongin fibers. This is now considered an artificial group because the orders Verongiida, Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and family Halisarcidae were included in the concept of Keratosa. From multidisplinary studies involving biology, chemistry, microbiology and genetics it is demonstrated that Verongiida and Halisarcidae are unrelated to Dictyoceratida and Dendroceratida. They are here included with Chondrosiida and Chondrillida in the subclass Verongimorpha. The remaining Dictyo- and Dendroceratida are retained in the subclass Keratosa (q.v.). [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Verongimorpha. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597811 on 2025-05-14
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Verongimorpha. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597811 on 2025-05-14
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Erpenbeck, D.; Sutcliffe, P.; Cook, S. de C.; Dietzel, A.; Maldonado, M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Wörheide, G. (2012). Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 63 (3): 809-816., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.024 [details] Available for editors
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). <em>Frontiers in Zoology.</em> 12: 7., available online at http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/12/1/7
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). <em>Frontiers in Zoology.</em> 12: 7., available online at http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/12/1/7
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Prior to Lévi's (1955) rearrangement of the Demosponge orders the name Keratosa was used to accommodate sponges lacking spicules and provided with spongin fibers. This is now considered an artificial group because the orders Verongiida, Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and family Halisarcidae were included in the concept of Keratosa. From multidisplinary studies involving biology, chemistry, microbiology and genetics it is demonstrated that Verongiida and Halisarcidae are unrelated to Dictyoceratida and Dendroceratida. They are here included with Chondrosiida and Chondrillida in the subclass Verongimorpha. The remaining Dictyo- and Dendroceratida are retained in the subclass Keratosa (q.v.). [details]
