World Porifera Database

The Phillippines harbor 429 sponge species

Added on: 2025-06-16 14:31:30 by van Soest, Rob W.M.

Atienza, A.M.N.; Anticamara, J.A. (2025) Updated sponge fauna records in the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology, 18 (1), 71-76 ...

Review of Hexactinellids in trench expedition videos

Added on: 2025-06-13 11:36:29 by van Soest, Rob W.M.

Marchiò, A.; Jamieson, A.J.; Stewart, H.A. (2025) Through the glass ceiling: extending the depth range of glass sponges (Porifera: Hexactinellida). Marine Biology, 172: 88 ...

Calcium carbonate deposition in the Calcarea Heteropia glomerosa

Added on: 2025-05-24 17:11:01 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Wendt, C.; De Medeiros, F.C.; Gonçalves, R.P.; Nudelman, F.; Klautau, M.; Farina, M.; Rossi, A.L. (2025). Calcium carbonate deposition in the spicules of the sponge Heteropia glomerosa (Porifera, Calcarea). Journal of Structural Biology. 217(2): 108210. ...

Abstract Submission Extended until the 25th April - 12th World Sponge Conference

Added on: 2025-04-21 18:38:11 by Xavier, Joana

Final call for abstract submission! ...

12th World Sponge Conference, 9-13th September 2025 in Vila do Conde, Portugal

Added on: 2025-04-15 11:31:10 by Xavier, Joana

Abstract submission until 18th April ...

A new species of Tubella (Porifera: Spongillidae) for the Brazilian Amazon

Added on: 2025-03-06 18:02:41 by Pinheiro, Ulisses

Nunes, G.; Custódio, M.; & Pinheiro U. (2024). A new species of Tubella (Porifera: Spongillidae) for the Brazilian Amazon: how misidentification can mask a potential species complex. Acta Amaz. 54 (4). https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392202401873 ...

New species of Sycetta (Calcarea) from Brazil

Added on: 2024-07-18 14:03:26 by Klautau, Michelle

Mattedi, A.; Cavalcanti, F.F. (2024). Sycetta papillata sp. nov. (Porifera, Calcarea): the first record of Sycetta to the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 5481 (3): 353-362 ...

Previously unknown diversity: the marine sponge (Porifera) fauna from Rio Grande do Norte State, NE Brazil

Added on: 2024-06-06 14:41:40 by Pinheiro, Ulisses

Praxedes, R.; Rabelo, E.; Cavalcanti, T.; Brandão, S.; Pinheiro, U.; Albuquerque, C.(2024). Zootaxa 5463 (3): 339–359 ...

Porifera editors participated in the very first online organised WoRMS-LifeWatch editor workshop

Added on: 2021-08-04 18:12:19 by Vandepitte, Leen

In the week of June 7th 2021, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) – host of Aphia, the online platform behind WoRMS and its many sub-registered – organized the very first online editor workshop, in which 13 Porifera-editors enthusiastically participated. ...

Welcome to Porifera news

Added on: 2010-11-12 11:07:10 by van Soest, Rob

Launching of a new feature of the World Porifera Database ! ...