Deep-Sea taxon details
Porifera
558 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:558)
Grant, 1836
accepted
Phylum
- Class Calcarea
- Class Demospongiae
- Class Hexactinellida
- Class Homoscleromorpha
- Class Porifera incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Grant, R.E. (1836). Animal Kingdom. Pp. 107-118. <em>In: Todd, R.B. (Ed.),The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Volume 1.</em> (Sherwood,Gilbert, and Piper: London): 1-813.
page(s): 108 [details]
page(s): 108 [details]
Deep-Sea (2025). Porifera. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558 on 2026-01-12
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Porifera. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558 on 2026-01-12
original description
Grant, R.E. (1836). Animal Kingdom. Pp. 107-118. <em>In: Todd, R.B. (Ed.),The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Volume 1.</em> (Sherwood,Gilbert, and Piper: London): 1-813.
page(s): 108 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (PeRMS) Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1996). A review of Iophonidae, Myxillidae and Tedaniidae occurring in the South East Pacific (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 103 (1): 3-79. [details]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.). (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 2 Volumes. 1706 pp. [2002 printed version ISBN 0-306-47260-0, 2004 eBook electronic version ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5]. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5 [details]
additional source Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Debrenne, F. (2002). Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. Pp. 9-14 <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) (2002) <i>Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 Volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Debrenne, F. (2002 [2004]). (2002). Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. Pp. 9-14 <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) (2002) <i>Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 Volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
page(s): 108 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (PeRMS) Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1996). A review of Iophonidae, Myxillidae and Tedaniidae occurring in the South East Pacific (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 103 (1): 3-79. [details]
basis of record Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.). (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 2 Volumes. 1706 pp. [2002 printed version ISBN 0-306-47260-0, 2004 eBook electronic version ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5]. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5 [details]
additional source Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Debrenne, F. (2002). Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. Pp. 9-14 <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) (2002) <i>Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 Volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Debrenne, F. (2002 [2004]). (2002). Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. Pp. 9-14 <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) (2002) <i>Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 Volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature note The name of the phylum Porifera was chosen from a large number of past alternative names for the phylum. Since the names of taxa above the family level are not guided by the Code of the ICZN, the name is dependent on a consensus of workers on the phylum. In the older literature other names may have reached popularity, so a non-exhaustive list is given here (but they are avoided in the WoRMS database with the argument of their status of 'disuse').Spongia Linnaeus, 1759; Pallas, 1766; Esper, 1794
Spongiaria Nardo, 1833
Amorphozoa Blainville, 1834; Johnston, 1842
Porifera Grant, 1836; Bowerbank, 1850, 1862; Vosmaer, 1887
Poriphera Grant, 1841
Porophora Hogg, 1841
Spongiae Hogg, 1842; Schmidt, 1862
Spongiadae Fleming, 1828; Nardo, 1843; Bowerbank, 1864
Poriphora Gray, 1867
Spongozoa Lütken, 1872
Spongida Carter, 1875
Spongiida Ridley, 1884
Mesodermalia Von Lendenfeld, 1888
[details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | sponzen | [details] |
| English | sponges | [details] |
| French | éponges | [details] |
| German | Schwämme | [details] |
| Italian | spugne | [details] |
| Japanese | 海綿動物門 | [details] |
| Portuguese | esponjas | [details] |
| Spanish | esponjas | [details] |
| Swahili (individual language) | sifongo | [details] |
| Swedish | svampdjur | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Porifera)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (10 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 078136)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Porifera)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (10 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 078136)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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