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New Spinularia from the Bering Sea with proposed new family Spinulariidae.

Added on: 2026-03-26 15:24:17 by van Soest, Rob W.M.

Santin, A; Theising, F.; Despujols, A.; Brandt, A. (2026) A chance encounter: New Spinularia Gray, 1867 from abyssal depths of the Aleutian Trench (Bering Sea) leads to the proposal of new family, Spinulariidae fam. nov. Progress in Oceanography, 103699 ...

Cave-dwelling Homoscleromorpha from Cape Verde archipelago

Added on: 2026-03-22 19:23:37 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Cabioch, C.; Ruiz, C.; Grenier, M.; Ereskovsky, A.; Moraes, F.; Fauvelot, C.; Pérez, T. (2026). Cave-dwelling Homoscleromorpha (Porifera) from Cape Verde archipelago (Northeast Atlantic): one new genus of aspiculate Plakinidae and five new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 206 (3). ...

High endemism of shallow-water Indo-Pacific sponges

Added on: 2026-03-17 09:31:59 by Cárdenas, Paco

Erpenbeck, D.; Galitz, A.; Berumen, M. L.; Büttner, G.; Debitus, C.; Dirnberger, M.; et al. (2026) Barcoding-Inferred Biodiversity of Shallow-Water Indo-Pacific Demosponges. Journal of Biogeography, 53, e70171. ...

Updated checklist of Libyan sponges

Added on: 2026-03-16 13:55:46 by van Soest, Rob W.M.

Hamza, A.; Ben Zeglam, S.; Albarki, R.; Karmous, A.; Elgamoudi, B.A.; Schiavo, A.; Longo, C. (2026) Unveiling the underexplored: an updated checklist and new records of Porifera from the Libyan Coast. Hydrobiologia, 2026, 5,7 (15 pp). ...

Can the hatchability of gemmules in differing environments explain the distribution of freshwater sponges?

Added on: 2026-03-10 14:43:49 by Pinheiro, Ulisses

Calheira, L.; Lanna, E.; Pinheiro, U. (2026). Can the hatchability of gemmules in differing environments explain the distribution of freshwater sponges? Inland Waters 16(1) 2578942, https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2025.2578942 ...

New and little-known heteroscleromorph Demospongiae from the continental shelf in the Amathole region

Added on: 2026-03-06 09:49:01 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Payne, R.P.; Samaai, T.; Janson, L.; Kerwath, S.E.; Gibbons, M.J. (2026). New and little-known heteroscleromorph Demospongiae from the continental shelf in the Amathole region (Eastern Cape, South Africa), with a note on the sponge biodiversity of the area. Zootaxa. 5764(1): 1-100 ...

Diversity and biogeographic connections of Poecilosclerida from the southern Southwest Atlantic Ocean

Added on: 2026-03-05 14:53:32 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Pavón-Novarin, M.; Schejter, L. (2026).Diversity and biogeographic connections of sponges (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) from the southern Southwest Atlantic Ocean. Polar Biology. 49(2). ...

New Chalinidae from SW Atlantic

Added on: 2026-02-13 10:13:24 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Bispo, A.; Carraro, J.L.; Mott, T.; Hajdu, E. (2026). Integrative taxonomy reveals 10 new species, new records, new combinations, exotic and cryptogenic species of Tropical South-western Atlantic Chalinidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Haplosclerida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 206(2): 2-89. ...

A second Podospongia species offshore from the Table Mountain National Park MPA

Added on: 2026-02-08 18:11:28 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Samaai, T. (2026). A century later: discovery of a second Podospongia species offshore from the Table Mountain National Park MPA, South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 106, e17, 1–8. ...

Sponges from the Turkish Straits

Added on: 2026-02-03 14:06:19 by van Soest, Rob W.M.

Evcen, A.; Özalp, H.B. (2026) New records of sponges (Phylum Porifera) for the Turkish straits system. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 66: 195–203 ...

Petromica moved to the new order Vilesida in the WPD

Added on: 2026-02-03 08:55:17 by Cárdenas, Paco

There are now enough arguments (Díaz et al., 2025) to move Petromica from the Desmanthidae (Bubarida) where it doesn’t belong. ...

Passing of Klaus Ruetzler

Added on: 2025-12-16 12:18:27 by de Voogd, Nicole J.

We are saddened to share the news of the passing of our Porifera editor Dr. Klaus Ruetzler (1936–2025) in November. ...

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 ! ...