Bowerbank, J. S. (1861). List of British sponges. Pp. 235-236 <i>In</i>: McAndrew, R. (Ed.), List of the British marine invertebratefauna. <em>Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 30.</em> [details]
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. (2019). World Porifera Database. Desmacidon Bowerbank, 1861. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2019) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/RAMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131943 on 2019-12-08
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original descriptionBowerbank, J. S. (1861). List of British sponges. Pp. 235-236 <i>In</i>: McAndrew, R. (Ed.), List of the British marine invertebratefauna. <em>Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 30.</em> [details]
basis of recordVan Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Desmacididae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 572-574. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] Available for editors
additional sourceHayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceVan Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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