Ascandra contorta
creator: de Haas, Henk
creator: van Soest, Rob W.M.
creator: Klautau, Michelle
date: 2026-08-24
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Ascandra contorta (Bowerbank, 1866)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: 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. Ascandra contorta (Bowerbank, 1866). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236225 on 2026-08-24
created: 2007-01-08T08:54:33Z
modified: 2013-07-17T14:43:36Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Ascandra contorta (Bowerbank, 1866)
class: Calcarea
family: Dendyidae
genus: Ascandra
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388.
name published in: Kölliker, A. Von 1864. Icones Histologicae, oder Atlas der Vergeleichenden Gewebelehre, I. Der feinern Bau der Protozoen. Leipzig.
name published in: Lendenfeld, R. von. (1891). Die Spongien der Adria, I. Die Kalkschwämme. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 53 (2): 185-321, (3): 361-463.
name published in year: 1866
name published in year: 1864
name published in year: 1891
order: Clathrinida
parent name usage ID: 131733
phylum: Porifera
scientific name authorship: (Bowerbank, 1866)
specific epithet: contorta
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted