World Porifera Database

Revision of Northeast Pacific Halichondriidae

Added on: 2025-11-06 16:11:15 by Cárdenas, Paco

Turner, T.L.; Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Thacker, R.W. (2025) A Common Garden of Halichondria Sponges: Taxonomic Revision of Northeast Pacific Halichondriidae Reveals Many Cryptic Introduced Species, Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 4(1) ...

New material from Oscar Schmidt's collection

Added on: 2025-10-30 17:02:57 by Cárdenas, Paco

Cárdenas, P.; Meister, M. (2025) The Schmidt collection of envelopes in the Musée Zoologique in Strasbourg. Journal of the History of Collections. ...

Direct Development in Craniella (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida)

Added on: 2025-10-11 10:58:37 by Cárdenas, Paco

Cárdenas, P.; Chenesseau, S.; Drewery, J.; Ereskovsky, A. (2025). Direct Development of Golf Ball Sponges, Genus Craniella (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) From the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 92(10). ...

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

Launching of a new feature of the World Porifera Database ! ...