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WPD: World Porifera Database
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de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/359
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de Voogd, Nicole Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.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/Coastal, 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]
Parameters
Taxonomy Contributors
de Voogd, Nicole, data creator, taxonomic editor Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, database developer
Alvarez, Belinda Boury-Esnault, Nicole, data creator, taxonomic editor Cárdenas, Paco Díaz, Maria-Cristina Dohrmann, Martin Downey, Rachel Goodwin, Claire Hajdu, Eduardo Hooper, John, data creator, taxonomic editor Kelly, Michelle Klautau, Michelle Lim, Swee-Cheng Manconi, Renata Morrow, Christine Pinheiro, Ulisses Pisera, Andrzej Ríos, Pilar Rützler, Klaus Schönberg, Christine Turner, Thomas Vacelet, Jean, data creator, taxonomic editor van Soest, Rob, data creator, taxonomic editor Xavier, Joana
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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. 2 vols. pp.
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2005-07-12
Information last updated: 2025-01-07
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