World Porifera Database

New hexactinellid from the Bering Sea

Added on: 2025-10-13 12:31:29 by van Soest, Rob W.M.

Tabachnick, K.R. (2025) A new species, genus and family of a hexactinellid sponge from the Bering Sea (Porifera: Hexactinellida). Invertebrate Zoology, 22(3), 401–410 ...

Direct Development in Craniella (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida)

Added on: 2025-10-11 10:58:37 by Cárdenas, Paco

Cárdenas, P.; Chenesseau, S.; Drewery, J.; Ereskovsky, A. (2025). Direct Development of Golf Ball Sponges, Genus Craniella (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) From the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 92(10). ...

New records of sponges from the west coast of India

Added on: 2025-09-17 15:16:08 by van Soest, Rob W.M.

Sivaleela, G.; Suganya, F.R.; Kamaleshwaran, E. (2025) Two New Distributional Records of Sponges along the West Coast of India. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology, 46 (16): 29-40. ...

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 ! ...