WoRMS taxon details
Demospongiae
AphiaID: 164811
AphiaID: 164811
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) |
| Authority | Sollas, 1885 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Class | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Porifera | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ceractinomorpha (disused) Sclerospongiae (disused) Tetractinomorpha (disused) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Sollas, W.J. 1885b. A Classification of the Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 16(95): 395. [details] basis of record: Sollas, W.J. 1885c. A Classification of the Sponges. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society (new series) 5: 112. [details] basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Class Demospongiae Sollas, 1885, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 15-18 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: 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, NY (USA). ISBN 0-306-47260-0. xix, 1-1101, 1103-1706 (2 volumes) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Chombard, C.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Tillier, A.; Vacelet, J.1997. Polyphyly of ‘Sclerosponges’ (Porifera, Demospongiae) Supported by 28S Ribosomal Sequences. Biological Bulletin 193:359-367. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Boury-Esnault, N. (2006). Systematics and evolution of Demospongiae. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84, 205-224, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/Z06-003 [details] from synonym: Hartman, W.D.; Goreau, T.F. 1970. Jamaican Coralline Sponges:their Morphology, Ecology and Fossil Relatives. Pp. 205-243. In: Fry,W.G. (Ed.), The Biology of the Porifera. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 25. (Academic Press: London): 1-512. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lévi, C. 1953a. Sur une nouvelle classification des Démosponges. Compte rendu hebdomadaire des séances de l’Académie des sciences. Paris 236(8): 853-855. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa | Order Agelasida Order Astrophorida Order Chondrosida Order Demospongiae incertae sedis Order Dendroceratida Order Dictyoceratida Order Hadromerida Order Halichondrida Order Haplosclerida Order 'Lithistida' Order Poecilosclerida Order Spirophorida Order Verongida Order Axinellida (temporary name) Subclass Democlavia (temporary name) Subclass Haploscleromorpha (temporary name) Subclass Heteroscleromorpha (temporary name) Subclass Keratosa (temporary name) Order Spongillida (temporary name) Subclass Tetractinellida (temporary name) Subclass Verongimorpha (temporary name) Subclass Ceractinomorpha accepted as Demospongiae Order Ceratoporellida accepted as Agelasida Order Choristida accepted as Astrophorida Order Gummineae accepted as Chondrosida Order Halisarcida accepted as Chondrosida Subclass Myxospongiae accepted as Verongimorpha Order Nepheliospongida accepted as Petrosina Order Petrosida accepted as Petrosina Subclass Tetractinomorpha accepted as Demospongiae Order Verticillitida accepted as Dictyoceratida | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
In the Systema Porifera the class Demospongiae was subdivided in three subclasses, Tetractinomorpha, Ceractinomorpha and Homoscleromorpha. Current insights are that the subclasses Tetractinomorpha and Ceractinomorpha overlap in many characters, are clearly paraphyletic and must be abandoned and replaced by different new assemblages. Names for groups of orders have been erected in recent papers based on molecular analyses, e.g. the old name Keratosa for a combination of Dictyoceratida and Dendroceratida, the name Tetractinellida for the combination of Spirophorida and Astrophorida (and some of the Lithistida), Verongimorpha Erpenbeck et al. 2012 for a combination of Verongida and Chondrosida including Halisarcida(e), Haploscleromorpha for the marine Haplosclerida, and Democlavia or 'G4' for the remaining orders. Until these combinations have been confirmed by forthcoming studies and until a comprehensive subclass classification has been established, we will continue using here the Systema Porifera orders as the units below the class level (May 2012). However, the former subclass Homoscleromorpha is transferred to a class of its own and is no longer considered part of the Demospongiae (January 2012). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164811 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Demospongiae. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=164811 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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