Deep-Sea taxon details
Spongosorites Topsent, 1896
131818 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131818)
accepted
Genus
Spongosorites placenta Topsent, 1896 (type by monotypy)
- Species Spongosorites arenatus Diaz, van Soest & Pomponi, 1993
- Species Spongosorites beringensis Lehnert & Stone, 2017
- Species Spongosorites coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915)
- Species Spongosorites difficilis (Lundbeck, 1902)
- Species Spongosorites placenta Topsent, 1896
- Species Spongosorites bubaroides Lévi & Lévi, 1983 accepted as Topsentia bubaroides (Lévi & Lévi, 1983) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites topsenti Lévi & Vacelet, 1958 accepted as Topsentia levivaceletorum Van Soest & Hooper, 2020 (genus transfer and preoccupied)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
masculine
Topsent, E. (1896). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> (9):113-133. [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. Spongosorites Topsent, 1896. 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=131818 on 2026-09-09
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Spongosorites Topsent, 1896. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131818 on 2026-09-09
Date
action
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original description
Topsent, E. (1896). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> (9):113-133. [details]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_84 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_84 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Spongosorites)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 005882.PR)
To ITIS
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 005882.PR)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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