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The Phillippines harbor 429 sponge species

Added on: 2025-06-16 14:31:30 by van Soest, Rob W.M.
Atienza, A.M.N.; Anticamara, J.A. (2025) Updated sponge fauna records in the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology, 18 (1), 71-76 ...

Review of Hexactinellids in trench expedition videos

Added on: 2025-06-13 11:36:29 by van Soest, Rob W.M.
Marchiò, A.; Jamieson, A.J.; Stewart, H.A. (2025) Through the glass ceiling: extending the depth range of glass sponges (Porifera: Hexactinellida). Marine Biology, 172: 88 ...

Rediscovery after three decades of the freshwater sponge Metania kiliani on a terrestrial fern

Added on: 2025-05-27 13:39:21 by Pinheiro, Ulisses
Sousa, C.D.V.M.D.; Lima, K.D.S.; Pinheiro, U.; Almeida, T.E. (2025). Rediscovery after three decades of the freshwater sponge Metania kiliani on a terrestrial fern. Acta Amazonica, 55, 1-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392202303981 ...

Calcium carbonate deposition in the Calcarea Heteropia glomerosa

Added on: 2025-05-24 17:11:01 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole
Wendt, C.; De Medeiros, F.C.; Gonçalves, R.P.; Nudelman, F.; Klautau, M.; Farina, M.; Rossi, A.L. (2025). Calcium carbonate deposition in the spicules of the sponge Heteropia glomerosa (Porifera, Calcarea). Journal of Structural Biology. 217(2): 108210. ...

Linnaeus' 1759 Porifera species finally typified on his 318th birthday

Added on: 2025-05-23 10:47:44 by van Soest, Rob W.M.
Van Soest, R.W.M. (2025) Typification of Porifera described in the 10th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, volume II, 1759. Zootaxa, 5638 (1), 1–65 ...

Checklist of sponges from Argentina

Added on: 2025-05-20 07:43:40 by Cárdenas, Paco
Schejter, L.; Bremec, C.; Cerrano, C.; Bertolino, M.; Calcinai, B. (2025). Checklist of sponges (Porifera) at the shelf-break front of Argentina, SW Atlantic Ocean, with data on their settlement substrata. The European Zoological Journal, 92(1), 535–557. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2025.2495787 ...

Abstract Submission Extended until the 25th April - 12th World Sponge Conference

Added on: 2025-04-21 18:38:11 by Xavier, Joana
Final call for abstract submission! ...

12th World Sponge Conference, 9-13th September 2025 in Vila do Conde, Portugal

Added on: 2025-04-15 11:31:10 by Xavier, Joana
Abstract submission until 18th April ...

A new species of Tubella (Porifera: Spongillidae) for the Brazilian Amazon

Added on: 2025-03-06 18:02:41 by Pinheiro, Ulisses
Nunes, G.; Custódio, M.; & Pinheiro U. (2024). A new species of Tubella (Porifera: Spongillidae) for the Brazilian Amazon: how misidentification can mask a potential species complex. Acta Amaz. 54 (4). https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392202401873 ...

New species of Sycetta (Calcarea) from Brazil

Added on: 2024-07-18 14:03:26 by Klautau, Michelle
Mattedi, A.; Cavalcanti, F.F. (2024). Sycetta papillata sp. nov. (Porifera, Calcarea): the first record of Sycetta to the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 5481 (3): 353-362 ...

Previously unknown diversity: the marine sponge (Porifera) fauna from Rio Grande do Norte State, NE Brazil

Added on: 2024-06-06 14:41:40 by Pinheiro, Ulisses
Praxedes, R.; Rabelo, E.; Cavalcanti, T.; Brandão, S.; Pinheiro, U.; Albuquerque, C.(2024). Zootaxa 5463 (3): 339–359 ...

Porifera editors participated in the very first online organised WoRMS-LifeWatch editor workshop

Added on: 2021-08-04 18:12:19 by Vandepitte, Leen
In the week of June 7th 2021, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) – host of Aphia, the online platform behind WoRMS and its many sub-registered – organized the very first online editor workshop, in which 13 Porifera-editors enthusiastically participated. ...

Welcome to Porifera news

Added on: 2010-11-12 11:07:10 by van Soest, Rob
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