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Heteroscleromorpha

607950  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:607950)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Porifera (Phylum)
  4. Demospongiae (Class)
  5. Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
Cárdenas, Pérez & Boury-Esnault, 2012
accepted
Subclass
Hadromerida · unaccepted (disused)
Halichondrida · unaccepted (disused)

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  1. Order Bubarida
  2. Order Clionaida
  3. Order Haplosclerida
  4. Order Poecilosclerida
  5. Order Spongillida
  6. Order Suberitida
  7. Order Tetractinellida
  8. Order Hadromerida accepted as Heteroscleromorpha (disused)
  9. Order Halichondrida accepted as Heteroscleromorpha (disused)
  10. Suborder Spongillina accepted as Spongillida (rank elevation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Cárdenas, P.; Pérez, T.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2012). Sponge Systematics Facing New Challenges. <i>In</i>: Becerro MA, Uriz MJ, Maldonado M, Turon X (eds) Advances in Sponge Science: Phylogeny, Systematics, Ecology. <em>Advances in Marine Biology.</em> 61, 79-209., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-387787-1.00010-6
page(s): 170 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
WRiMS (2025). Heteroscleromorpha. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced%20/aphia.php/api-docs/docs/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=607950 on 2026-01-16
Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Heteroscleromorpha. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=607950 on 2026-01-16
Date
action
by
2012-08-22 13:54:09Z
created
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2015-04-21 10:18:47Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2016-10-09 10:52:13Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.

original description Cárdenas, P.; Pérez, T.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2012). Sponge Systematics Facing New Challenges. <i>In</i>: Becerro MA, Uriz MJ, Maldonado M, Turon X (eds) Advances in Sponge Science: Phylogeny, Systematics, Ecology. <em>Advances in Marine Biology.</em> 61, 79-209., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-387787-1.00010-6
page(s): 170 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

original description (of Halichondrida) Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Hadromerida) Topsent, E. (1894). Une réforme dans la classification des Halichondrina. <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 7: 5-26. [details] OpenAccess publication

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] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). <em>Frontiers in Zoology.</em> 12: 7., available online at http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/12/1/7
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Boury-Esnault, N., G. Bellan, D. Bellan-Santini, C.F. Boudouresque, P. Chevaldonné, A. Dias, D. Faget, J.G. Harmelin, M. Harmelin-Vivien, C. Lejeusne, T. Pérez, J. Vacelet & M. Verlaque. (2023). The Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille: 150 years of natural history. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5249(2): 213-252. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.3 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Redmond, N.E.; Morrow, C.C.; Thacker, R.W.; Díaz, M.C.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Hajdu, E.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Picton, B.E.; Pomponi, S.A.; Kayal, E.; Collins, A.G. (2013). Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences. <em>Integrative and Comparative Biology.</em> 53 (3): 388-415., available online at http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/22/icb.ict078
page(s): 399 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Halichondrida)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Hadromerida)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heteroscleromorpha) 
To Genbank 
To The Arctic Traits Database (7 traits) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 008595.PR) (from synonym Halichondrida)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 095605) 
Unreviewed
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