WoRMS taxon details
Plocamionida Topsent, 1927
131954 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131954)
accepted
Genus
Microciona ambigua Bowerbank, 1866 accepted as Plocamionida ambigua (Bowerbank, 1866) (type by subsequent designation)
Hymendectyon Bakus, 1966 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Plocamionida achelata Topsent, 1928
- Species Plocamionida ambigua (Bowerbank, 1866)
- Species Plocamionida gaussiana (Hentschel, 1914)
- Species Plocamionida grandichelata Brøndsted, 1932
- Species Plocamionida lyoni (Bakus, 1966)
- Species Plocamionida microcionides (Carter, 1876)
- Species Plocamionida topsenti Burton, 1954
- Species Plocamionida tylotata Brøndsted, 1932
- Species Plocamionida fragilis (Koltun, 1959) accepted as Wigginsia wigginsi de Laubenfels, 1953 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Topsent, E. (1927). Diagnoses d'Éponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert ler de Monaco. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique Monaco.</em> (502): 1-19.
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Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI. [details]
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[request]Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI. [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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Plocamionida Topsent, 1927. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131954 on 2026-04-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Topsent, E. (1927). Diagnoses d'Éponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert ler de Monaco. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique Monaco.</em> (502): 1-19.
page(s): 16 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI. [details]
original description (of Hymendectyon Bakus, 1966) Bakus, G.J. (1966). Marine poeciloscleridan sponges of the San Juan Archipelago, Washington. <em>Journal of Zoology.</em> 149: 415-531, pls I-II., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1966.tb02994.x [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928. Pp. 575-593. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes.</em> Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928. Pp. 575-593. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes.</em> Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_62 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 16 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI. [details]
original description (of Hymendectyon Bakus, 1966) Bakus, G.J. (1966). Marine poeciloscleridan sponges of the San Juan Archipelago, Washington. <em>Journal of Zoology.</em> 149: 415-531, pls I-II., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1966.tb02994.x [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928. Pp. 575-593. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes.</em> Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928. Pp. 575-593. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes.</em> Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_62 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source
Reveillaud, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Derycke, S.; Picton, B.; Rigaux, A.; Vanreusel, A. (2011). Phylogenetic Relationships among NE Atlantic <em>Plocamionida</em> Topsent (1927) (Porifera, Poecilosclerida): Under-Estimated Diversity in Reef Ecosystems. <em>PloS ONE.</em> 6(2): e16533., available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016533 [details] Available for editors [request]
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additional source
Van 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
