Deep-Sea taxon details
Parahigginsia Dendy, 1924
166031 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166031)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Dendy, A. (1924). Porifera. Part I. Non-Antarctic sponges. Natural History Report. <em>British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910 (Zoology).</em> 6 (3): 269-392, pls I-XV.
page(s): 374-375 [details]
page(s): 374-375 [details]
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. (2026). World Porifera Database. Parahigginsia Dendy, 1924. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=166031 on 2026-07-14
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Parahigginsia Dendy, 1924. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=166031 on 2026-07-14
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z
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original description
Dendy, A. (1924). Porifera. Part I. Non-Antarctic sponges. Natural History Report. <em>British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910 (Zoology).</em> 6 (3): 269-392, pls I-XV.
page(s): 374-375 [details]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1916. pp. 755-772. <i>In</i>: 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). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_82 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Hooper, J. N. A. (2002 [2004]). Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1917. Pp. 755–772. <em>In: </em>Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
status source Shilov, V.; Kukhlevskiy, A.; Nefedova, E. (2025). On the taxonomic position of the genus <i>Parahigginsia</i> (Porifera: Demospongiae), with the description of a new species and the first record of the genus from the North Pacific. <em>Zoosystematica Rossica.</em> 34(2): 298-331., available online at https://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/publication.asp?id=1552
page(s): 302 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 374-375 [details]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1916. pp. 755-772. <i>In</i>: 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). , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_82 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Hooper, J. N. A. (2002 [2004]). Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1917. Pp. 755–772. <em>In: </em>Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). <em>Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.</em> (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
status source Shilov, V.; Kukhlevskiy, A.; Nefedova, E. (2025). On the taxonomic position of the genus <i>Parahigginsia</i> (Porifera: Demospongiae), with the description of a new species and the first record of the genus from the North Pacific. <em>Zoosystematica Rossica.</em> 34(2): 298-331., available online at https://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/publication.asp?id=1552
page(s): 302 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Classification Shilov et al. (2025) using 18S rRNA sequences proposed to reassign the genus Parahigginsia to order Suberitida and tentatively to family Halichondriidae. Previously, Alvarez & Hooper (2002), Van Soest et al. (2014), Morrow & Cardenas (2015), Morrow et al. (2019) maintained the genus in Axinellida, although assigned to different families, but these assignments lack molecular support. Following Shilov et al.'s proposal to reassign the present genus to Suberitida is postponed until more (molecular) support has been obtained and family allocation can be made. [details]
