World Porifera Database

New records of sponges from the west coast of India

Added on: 2025-09-17 15:16:08 by van Soest, Rob W.M.

Sivaleela, G.; Suganya, F.R.; Kamaleshwaran, E. (2025) Two New Distributional Records of Sponges along the West Coast of India. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology, 46 (16): 29-40. ...

Calcareous sponges from São Paulo, Brazil

Added on: 2025-09-03 15:45:19 by Klautau, Michelle

Pereira, S.E.; Azevedo, F.; Hajdu, E.; Cavalcanti, F.F.; Klautau, M. (2025). Calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) from São Sebastião, São Paulo: new species and new records in two marine protected areas of Southeastern Brazil Ecoregion. Zootaxa, 5668 (1): 1-107. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5688.1.1 ...

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

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