MarBEF Data System - ERMS

ERMS taxon details

Porifera


Porifera, Class Dem...

AphiaID

558 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:558)

Classification

Authority

Grant, 1836

Status

accepted

Rank

Phylum

Parent

Animalia

Orig. name

Porifera

Direct children (5)
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Class Calcarea
Class Demospongiae
Class Hexactinellida
Class Homoscleromorpha

Class Porifera incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Grant, R.E. (1836). Animal Kingdom. Pp. 107-118. In: Todd, R.B. (Ed.),The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Volume 1. (Sherwood,Gilbert, and Piper: London): 1-813. [details]

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2018). Porifera. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558 on 2019-04-22

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2019). European Register of Marine Species. Porifera. Accessed at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558 on 2019-04-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2016-08-25 08:03:30Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Licensing

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original description Grant, R.E. (1836). Animal Kingdom. Pp. 107-118. In: Todd, R.B. (Ed.),The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Volume 1. (Sherwood,Gilbert, and Piper: London): 1-813. [details]

basis of record Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.). (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 2 Volumes. 1706 pp. ISBN 0-306-47260-0. (look up in RoR) [details]

additional source Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Debrenne, F. (2002). Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. pp. 9-14 in: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. Volume 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). (look up in RoR) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Language	Name
Dutch	sponzen	[details]
English	sponges	[details]
French	éponges	[details]
German	Schwämme	[details]
Spanish	esponjas	[details]
Swahili (individual language)	sifongo	[details]

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To GenBank
To The Arctic Traits Database (10 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 077865)
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