WoRMS taxon details
Stylocordyla borealis (Lovén, 1868)
134240 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134240)
accepted
Species
Cometella simplex Carter, 1876 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Ficulina borealis (Lovén, 1868) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Polymastia stipitata Carter, 1876 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Stylocordyla borealis borealis (Lovén, 1868) · unaccepted (status change)
Stylocordyla borealis typica Burton, 1931 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Stylocordyla stipitata (Carter, 1876) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Stylorhiza stipitata (Carter, 1876) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
- Subspecies Stylocordyla borealis borealis (Lovén, 1868) accepted as Stylocordyla borealis (Lovén, 1868) (status change)
- Subspecies Stylocordyla borealis eous Koltun, 1966 accepted as Stylocordyla eous Koltun, 1966 (status change)
- Subspecies Stylocordyla borealis irregularis Hentschel, 1914 accepted as Stylocordyla irregularis Hentschel, 1914 (status change)
- Subspecies Stylocordyla borealis typica Burton, 1931 accepted as Stylocordyla borealis borealis (Lovén, 1868) accepted as Stylocordyla borealis (Lovén, 1868) (junior synonym)
- Variety Stylocordyla borealis var. acuata Kirkpatrick, 1908 accepted as Stylocordyla acuata Kirkpatrick, 1908 (status change)
- Variety Stylocordyla borealis var. globosa Ridley & Dendy, 1886 accepted as Stylocordyla globosa Ridley & Dendy, 1886 (status change)
- Variety Stylocordyla borealis var. irregularis Hentschel, 1914 accepted as Stylocordyla irregularis Hentschel, 1914 (status change)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868) Lovén, S. (1868). Om en märklig i Nordsjön lefvande art af <i>Spongia</i>.Öfversigt af Kongl. <em>Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar.</em> 25(2):105-121. [details] 
Lectotype (of Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868) SMNH...
Lectotype (of Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868) SMNH 8152, geounit Northern Norway and Finnmark [details]
Distribution Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) (= Honguedo Strait)
Distribution Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) (= Honguedo Strait) [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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Stylocordyla borealis (Lovén, 1868). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134240 on 2026-08-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Stylocordyla borealis typica Burton, 1931) Burton, M. (1931). The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. <em>Tromsø Museum Skrifter.</em> 1 (13): 1-8.
page(s): 8 [details]
original description (of Polymastia stipitata Carter, 1876) Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937608682078
page(s): 393-395 [details]
original description (of Cometella simplex Carter, 1876) Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937608682078
page(s): 395 [details]
original description (of Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868) Lovén, S. (1868). Om en märklig i Nordsjön lefvande art af <i>Spongia</i>.Öfversigt af Kongl. <em>Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar.</em> 25(2):105-121. [details]
basis of record Theising, F. I.; Hentschel, U.; Busch, K.; Brandt, A.; Carvalho, F.; Xavier, J. R.; Santín Muriel, A. (2026). Does an arctic circumpolar distribution exist for deep-sea sponges? Unravelling the systematics of <i>Stylocordyla borealis</i> (Porifera: Demospongiae) through integrative taxonomy. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 241: 103646., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103646
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 8 [details]
original description (of Polymastia stipitata Carter, 1876) Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937608682078
page(s): 393-395 [details]
original description (of Cometella simplex Carter, 1876) Carter, H.J. (1876). Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869 (concluded). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937608682078
page(s): 395 [details]
original description (of Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868) Lovén, S. (1868). Om en märklig i Nordsjön lefvande art af <i>Spongia</i>.Öfversigt af Kongl. <em>Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar.</em> 25(2):105-121. [details]
basis of record Theising, F. I.; Hentschel, U.; Busch, K.; Brandt, A.; Carvalho, F.; Xavier, J. R.; Santín Muriel, A. (2026). Does an arctic circumpolar distribution exist for deep-sea sponges? Unravelling the systematics of <i>Stylocordyla borealis</i> (Porifera: Demospongiae) through integrative taxonomy. <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 241: 103646., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103646
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors
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Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. <em>Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg).</em> Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bergquist, P.R. (1972). Deep water Demospongiae from New Zealand. <em>Micronesica.</em> 8(1-2): 125-136.
page(s): 130-131; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Van Beveren, M. (1982). Les Démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. <em>Comité national français des recherches antarctiques.</em> 52: 1-175.
page(s): 40-42; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Brøndsted, H.V. (1933). The Godthaab Expedition 1928. Porifera. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland.</em> 79 (5):1-25.
page(s): 7 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Burton, M. (1929). Porifera. Part II. Antarctic sponges. <em>British Antarctic ('Terra Nova') Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, London, Zoology.</em> 6 (4): 393-458, pls I-V.
page(s): 445; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1975). Esponjas (Porifera) de la region antartica chilena. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 16 (1): 47-82.
page(s): 52-53; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. <em>Zoology.</em> 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map.
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. <em>In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898.</em> 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena).
page(s): 867 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46.
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 23 (=24) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Levinsen, G.M.R. (1887). Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). <em>Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte.</em> 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI. [details]
additional source Muricy, G.; Lopes, D.A.; Hajdu, E; Carvalho, M.S.; Moraes, F.C.; Klautau, M.; Menegola, C.; Pinheiro, U. (2011). Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. <em>Museu Nacional, Série Livros.</em> 300 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20800977
page(s): 71; note: Brazilian records doubtful [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rezvoi, P. (1931). Sponges collected by the expedition of the Institute for the scientific exploration of the North to Novaya Zemlya in 1925. <em>Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS.</em> 32: 503-521. (In Russian, with English Summary).
page(s): 509 [details]
additional source Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
page(s): SUP. MAT. Appendix 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Tanita, S.; Hoshino, T. (1989). The Demospongiae of Sagami Bay. <em>Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household: Japan.</em> i-xiii, 1-197 [in English], pls 1-19; 1-166 [in Japanese], 1 map.
page(s): 81 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Topsent, E. (1896). Éponges [Sponges], <B><I>in</I></B>: Koehler, R. (Ed.) (1896). <i>Scientific results of the <i>Caudan</i> campaign in the Gulf of Biscay, August-September 1895</i>. <em>Annales de l'Université de Lyon.</em> 26: pp. 276-295, 7 plates. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 275 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1913). Spongiaires provenant des campagnes scientifiques de la ‘Princesse Alice' dans les Mers du Nord (1898-1899 - 1906-1907). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I de Monaco.</em> 45: 1-67, pls I-V.
page(s): 27 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J.; Arnaud, F. (1972). Invertébrés marins des XIIème et XVème Expéditions Antarctiques françaises en Terre Adélie. 2. - Démosponges. <em>Téthys.</em> Supplement 4: 9-24.
page(s): 14; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source 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]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2016). Sponge-collecting from a drifting ice floe: the Porifera obtained in the Kara Sea by the Dutch Polar Expedition 1882-83. <em>Contributions to Zoology.</em> 85 (3): 311-326., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08503004
page(s): 324 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/26660644-01201001
page(s): 10-12 [details]
additional source Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. <em>Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg).</em> Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bergquist, P.R. (1972). Deep water Demospongiae from New Zealand. <em>Micronesica.</em> 8(1-2): 125-136.
page(s): 130-131; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Van Beveren, M. (1982). Les Démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. <em>Comité national français des recherches antarctiques.</em> 52: 1-175.
page(s): 40-42; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Brøndsted, H.V. (1933). The Godthaab Expedition 1928. Porifera. <em>Meddelelser om Grønland.</em> 79 (5):1-25.
page(s): 7 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Burton, M. (1929). Porifera. Part II. Antarctic sponges. <em>British Antarctic ('Terra Nova') Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, London, Zoology.</em> 6 (4): 393-458, pls I-V.
page(s): 445; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1975). Esponjas (Porifera) de la region antartica chilena. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 16 (1): 47-82.
page(s): 52-53; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hansen, G.A. (1885). Spongiadae. The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition 1876-1878. <em>Zoology.</em> 13: 1-26, pls I-VII, 1 map.
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source Hentschel, E. (1929). Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. <em>In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898.</em> 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena).
page(s): 867 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46.
note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 23 (=24) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Levinsen, G.M.R. (1887). Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). <em>Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte.</em> 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI. [details]
additional source Muricy, G.; Lopes, D.A.; Hajdu, E; Carvalho, M.S.; Moraes, F.C.; Klautau, M.; Menegola, C.; Pinheiro, U. (2011). Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. <em>Museu Nacional, Série Livros.</em> 300 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20800977
page(s): 71; note: Brazilian records doubtful [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rezvoi, P. (1931). Sponges collected by the expedition of the Institute for the scientific exploration of the North to Novaya Zemlya in 1925. <em>Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS.</em> 32: 503-521. (In Russian, with English Summary).
page(s): 509 [details]
additional source Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99 (4): 807 - 831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315418000589
page(s): SUP. MAT. Appendix 1 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Tanita, S.; Hoshino, T. (1989). The Demospongiae of Sagami Bay. <em>Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household: Japan.</em> i-xiii, 1-197 [in English], pls 1-19; 1-166 [in Japanese], 1 map.
page(s): 81 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Topsent, E. (1896). Éponges [Sponges], <B><I>in</I></B>: Koehler, R. (Ed.) (1896). <i>Scientific results of the <i>Caudan</i> campaign in the Gulf of Biscay, August-September 1895</i>. <em>Annales de l'Université de Lyon.</em> 26: pp. 276-295, 7 plates. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 275 [details]
additional source Topsent, E. (1913). Spongiaires provenant des campagnes scientifiques de la ‘Princesse Alice' dans les Mers du Nord (1898-1899 - 1906-1907). <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I de Monaco.</em> 45: 1-67, pls I-V.
page(s): 27 [details]
additional source Vacelet, J.; Arnaud, F. (1972). Invertébrés marins des XIIème et XVème Expéditions Antarctiques françaises en Terre Adélie. 2. - Démosponges. <em>Téthys.</em> Supplement 4: 9-24.
page(s): 14; note: Misapplication [details]
additional source 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]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2016). Sponge-collecting from a drifting ice floe: the Porifera obtained in the Kara Sea by the Dutch Polar Expedition 1882-83. <em>Contributions to Zoology.</em> 85 (3): 311-326., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08503004
page(s): 324 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. <em>Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde.</em> 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/26660644-01201001
page(s): 10-12 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Lectotype (of Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868) SMNH 8152, geounit Northern Norway and Finnmark [details]
Nontype (of Stylocordyla stipitata (Carter, 1876)) BMNH 1887.5.2.275, geounit Subantarctic Lower Bathyal Province [details]
Paralectotype (of Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868) SMNH 6153, geounit Southern Norway [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) (= Honguedo Strait) [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | boreal horny sponge | [details] |
| French | éponge boréale | [details] |
| Japanese | ウミウドンゲ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Stylocordyla stipitata (Carter, 1876))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Polymastia stipitata Carter, 1876)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Stylorhiza stipitata (Carter, 1876))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stylocordyla borealis)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Stylocordyla borealis typica Burton, 1931)
To PESI (from synonym Stylocordyla stipitata (Carter, 1876))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (26 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 007164.PR)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Stylocordyla stipitata (Carter, 1876))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Hyalonema boreale Lovén, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Polymastia stipitata Carter, 1876)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Stylorhiza stipitata (Carter, 1876))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stylocordyla borealis)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Stylocordyla borealis typica Burton, 1931)
To PESI (from synonym Stylocordyla stipitata (Carter, 1876))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (26 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 007164.PR)
To ITIS
