WPD: World Porifera Database

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Van Soest, R.W.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schönberg, C.; Klautau, M.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J.L.; Ríos, P.; Downey, R.; Morrow, C.C. (2021). World Porifera Database. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/359

Contact: van Soest, Rob

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Description

The WPD, the World Database of all Recent sponges ever described, is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to arrive at a register of all marine organisms. The WPD is complementary to the Systema Porifera (editors Hooper & Van Soest, 2002), the two volume comprehensive classification of all sponge taxa above the species level. It incorporates recent and future amendments of the sponge classification, including the recently proposed revision of Morrow & Cárdenas (2015). more

The aim for the WPD is to be a catalogue of sponge species in a continuously updated, fully hierarchical system to promote stability of sponge names, to serve the community of users of sponge names, and to act as a tool for higher taxon revisions and regional monographs. A further aim is to be the world’s comprehensive database for sponge type specimens and other important vouchered specimens. Additional information we are making available are (overview) distributions of all species and unaccepted name combinations occurring in the literature.

Scope

Themes:

Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates

Keywords:

Marine, Classification, Marine invertebrates, Species, Taxonomy, World Waters, Porifera

Geographical coverage

World Waters [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

From 1758 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage

Porifera [WoRMS]

Parameter

Taxonomy

Contributors

van Soest, Rob
Vacelet, Jean
Hooper, John
de Voogd, Nicole
Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, database developer

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Published in:

WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more

Publication

Based on this dataset

Van Soest, R.W.M. et al. (2012). Global diversity of sponges (Porifera). PLoS One 7(4): e35105. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035105

Used in this dataset

Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York. ISBN 0-306-47260-0. XIX, 1-1101, 1103-1706 (2 volumes) pp.

Dataset status: In Progress

Data type: Data

Data origin: Literature research

Metadatarecord created: 2005-07-12

Information last updated: 2021-02-16

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