WoRMS taxon details
Polyfibrospongia Bowerbank, 1877
184846 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:184846)
accepted
Genus
Polyfibrospongia flabellifera Bowerbank, 1877 (type by subsequent designation)
Species Polyfibrospongia alcicornis (Esper, 1794)
Species Polyfibrospongia contorta (Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988)
Species Polyfibrospongia delicata (Pulitzer-Finali, 1982)
Species Polyfibrospongia flabellifera Bowerbank, 1877
Species Polyfibrospongia kulit Abdul Wahab & Fromont, 2020
Species Polyfibrospongia australis (Lendenfeld, 1888) accepted as Fasciospongia turgida (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species Polyfibrospongia dysodes de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Smenospongia dysodes (de Laubenfels, 1954) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia echina de Laubenfels, 1934 accepted as Smenospongia echina (de Laubenfels, 1934) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia maynardii (Hyatt, 1877) accepted as Smenospongia maynardii (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia nuda Lévi, 1969 accepted as Smenospongia nuda (Lévi, 1969) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia sweeti Kirkpatrick, 1900 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) sweeti (Kirkpatrick, 1900) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia vesiculifera (Poléjaeff, 1884) accepted as Psammocinia vesiculifera (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Species Polyfibrospongia contorta (Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988)
Species Polyfibrospongia delicata (Pulitzer-Finali, 1982)
Species Polyfibrospongia flabellifera Bowerbank, 1877
Species Polyfibrospongia kulit Abdul Wahab & Fromont, 2020
Species Polyfibrospongia australis (Lendenfeld, 1888) accepted as Fasciospongia turgida (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species Polyfibrospongia dysodes de Laubenfels, 1954 accepted as Smenospongia dysodes (de Laubenfels, 1954) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia echina de Laubenfels, 1934 accepted as Smenospongia echina (de Laubenfels, 1934) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia maynardii (Hyatt, 1877) accepted as Smenospongia maynardii (Hyatt, 1877) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia nuda Lévi, 1969 accepted as Smenospongia nuda (Lévi, 1969) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia sweeti Kirkpatrick, 1900 accepted as Spongia (Spongia) sweeti (Kirkpatrick, 1900) (genus transfer)
Species Polyfibrospongia vesiculifera (Poléjaeff, 1884) accepted as Psammocinia vesiculifera (Poléjaeff, 1884)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 456-464. [details] 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Carballo, J.L.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.C. Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2021). World Porifera Database. Polyfibrospongia Bowerbank, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=184846 on 2021-10-27
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Bowerbank, J.S. (1877). Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877: 456-464. [details]
status source Abdul Wahab, M.A.; Wilson, N.G.; Prada, D.; Gomez, O.; Fromont, J. (2020 [2021]). Molecular and morphological assessment of tropical sponges in the subfamily Phyllospongiinae, with the descriptions of two new species. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 193 (1): 319–335., available online at http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B6B5E0EFA62B- 4DAF-ABDA-4CAC009EEB27
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status source Abdul Wahab, M.A.; Wilson, N.G.; Prada, D.; Gomez, O.; Fromont, J. (2020 [2021]). Molecular and morphological assessment of tropical sponges in the subfamily Phyllospongiinae, with the descriptions of two new species. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 193 (1): 319–335., available online at http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B6B5E0EFA62B- 4DAF-ABDA-4CAC009EEB27
page(s): 20-21 [details] Available for editors
[request] 