WoRMS name details
Lithistida
131605 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131605)
Schmidt, 1870
unaccepted (disused)
Order
- Suborder Dicranocladina accepted as Tetractinellida (disused)
- Suborder Megamorina accepted as Tetractinellida (disused)
- Suborder Rhizomorina accepted as Tetractinellida (disused)
- Suborder Tetracladina accepted as Tetractinellida (disused)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [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. Lithistida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131605 on 2025-04-29
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Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details]
basis of record Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. (2002). 'Lithistid' Demospongiae. Pp. 299-301. <i>In</i>: 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). ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. (2002 [2004]). 'Lithistid' Demospongiae. Pp. 299-301. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers) NY.</em> 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. (2002). 'Lithistid' Demospongiae. Pp. 299-301. <i>In</i>: 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). ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. (2002 [2004]). 'Lithistid' Demospongiae. Pp. 299-301. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers) NY.</em> 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Remark 'Lithistida' are sponges sharing a skeleton built from desma spicules. The Recent lithistids are generally considered a polyphyletic assemblage, with various famlies and genera related to sponges lacking desmas based on shared microscleres. Examples are Scleritodermidae with sigmaspires identical to those in Spirophorina, and Corallistidae with amphiasters shared with Pachastrellidae. Unfortunately, most fossils and several Recent families do not demonstrate such clear characters shared with non-Lithistids, so their affinities remain obscure. They are here divided among the unrelated orders Tetractinellida, Sphaerocladina and Bubarida. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | デスマ海綿／イシカイメン目 | [details] |
