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WPD: World Porifera Database
Citable as data publication
Van Soest, R.W.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schönberg, C.; Klautau, M.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J.L.; Ríos, P.; Downey, R.; Morrow, C.C. (2021). World Porifera Database. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/359
Contact:
van Soest, Rob
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
The WPD, the World Database of all Recent sponges ever described, is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to arrive at a register of all marine organisms. The WPD is complementary to the Systema Porifera (editors Hooper & Van Soest, 2002), the two volume comprehensive classification of all sponge taxa above the species level. It incorporates recent and future amendments of the sponge classification, including the recently proposed revision of Morrow & Cárdenas (2015). more
The aim for the WPD is to be a catalogue of sponge species in a continuously updated, fully hierarchical system to promote stability of sponge names, to serve the community of users of sponge names, and to act as a tool for higher taxon revisions and regional monographs. A further aim is to be the world’s comprehensive database for sponge type specimens and other important vouchered specimens. Additional information we are making available are (overview) distributions of all species and unaccepted name combinations occurring in the literature.
The aim for the WPD is to be a catalogue of sponge species in a continuously updated, fully hierarchical system to promote stability of sponge names, to serve the community of users of sponge names, and to act as a tool for higher taxon revisions and regional monographs. A further aim is to be the world’s comprehensive database for sponge type specimens and other important vouchered specimens. Additional information we are making available are (overview) distributions of all species and unaccepted name combinations occurring in the literature.
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine, Classification, Marine invertebrates, Species, Taxonomy, World Waters, Porifera
Geographical coverage
World Waters [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress]
Taxonomic coverage
Porifera [WoRMS]
Parameter
Taxonomy
Contributors
van Soest, Rob
Vacelet, Jean
Schönberg, Christine
Rützler, Klaus
Ríos, Pilar
Pisera, Andrzej
Morrow, Christine
Manconi, Renata
Klautau, Michelle
Kelly, Michelle
Hooper, John
Hajdu, Eduardo
Downey, Rachel
Dohrmann, Martin
Díaz, Maria-Cristina
de Voogd, Nicole
Cárdenas, Paco
Carballo, José Luis
Boury-Esnault, Nicole
Alvarez, Belinda
Vacelet, Jean
Schönberg, Christine
Rützler, Klaus
Ríos, Pilar
Pisera, Andrzej
Morrow, Christine
Manconi, Renata
Klautau, Michelle
Kelly, Michelle
Hooper, John
Hajdu, Eduardo
Downey, Rachel
Dohrmann, Martin
Díaz, Maria-Cristina
de Voogd, Nicole
Cárdenas, Paco
Carballo, José Luis
Boury-Esnault, Nicole
Alvarez, Belinda
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, database developer
Related datasets
Published in:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Van Soest, R.W.M. et al. (2012). Global diversity of sponges (Porifera). PLoS One 7(4): e35105. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035105, more
Used in this dataset
Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York. ISBN 0-306-47260-0. XIX, 1-1101, 1103-1706 (2 volumes) pp., more
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2005-07-12
Information last updated: 2021-02-16
