WoRMS taxon details
Leiosella Lendenfeld, 1888
165136 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165136)
accepted
Genus
Euspongia levis Lendenfeld, 1886 accepted as Leiosella levis (Lendenfeld, 1886) (type by subsequent designation)
- Species Leiosella arbuscula (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Species Leiosella caliculata Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Leiosella elegans Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Leiosella flabellum Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Leiosella idia (de Laubenfels, 1932)
- Species Leiosella levis (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Species Leiosella ramosa Bergquist, 1995
- Species Leiosella silicata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Species Leiosella compacta (Carter, 1882) accepted as Leiosella caliculata Lendenfeld, 1889
- Species Leiosella foliacea (Ridley, 1884) accepted as Lendenfeldia foliacea (Ridley, 1884) (genus transfer)
- Species Leiosella illawarra Lendenfeld, 1889 accepted as Dactylia illawarra (Lendenfeld, 1889) (genus transfer)
- Species Leiosella mathewsi (Lendenfeld, 1886) accepted as Coscinoderma mathewsi (Lendenfeld, 1886)
- Species Leiosella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804) accepted as Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804) (genus transfer)
- Species Leiosella ramodigitata (Burton, 1934) accepted as Ircinia ramodigitata (Burton, 1934)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12.
page(s): 120 [details]
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 201-210 [details]
page(s): 120 [details]
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 201-210 [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. Leiosella Lendenfeld, 1888. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165136 on 2026-09-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Lendenfeld, R. von. (1888). Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London). i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12.
page(s): 120 [details]
original description Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 201-210 [details]
basis of record Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R. (2002 [2004]]). Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R. (2002). Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_101
page(s): 1057-1059 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 120 [details]
original description Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.20735531;view=1up;seq=1
page(s): 201-210 [details]
basis of record Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R. (2002 [2004]]). Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R. (2002). Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_101
page(s): 1057-1059 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Bergquist, P.R. (1980). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (class Demospongiae). <em>New Zealand Journal of Zoology.</em> 7 (4): 443-503., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1980.11760680
page(s): 458 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 59-60 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 458 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 59-60 [details] Available for editors
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