Spongia

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Spongia
Spongia officinalis 001.JPG
Spongia officinalis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Dictyoceratida
Family: Spongiidae
Genus: Spongia
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Warm-temperate distribution of the genus Spongia.png
Global distribution of Spongia species
in the Mediterranean Sea

Spongia is a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae, originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1759, containing more than 60 species.[1] Some species, including Spongia officinalis, are used as cleaning tools, but have mostly been replaced in that use by synthetic or plant material.

Classification[]

The following species are recognised in the genus Spongia:[1]

Subgenus unassigned
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Lamarck, 1814
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • † Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • sensu Linnaeus, 1759
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Lamarck, 1814
Subgenus Australospongia Cook & Bergquist, 2001
  • Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Subgenus Heterofibria Cook & Bergquist, 2001
  • Mothes, Kasper, Lerner, Campos & Carraro, 2006
  • Kim & Sim, 2009
  • Cook & Bergquist, 2001
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Cook & Bergquist, 2001
  • Cook & Bergquist, 2001
  • Cook & Bergquist, 2001
  • Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2020
  • Kim & Sim, 2009
  • Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019
Subgenus Spongia
  • (Topsent, 1925)
  • Pallas, 1766
  • de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
  • arabica Keller, 1889
  • Bergquist, 1995
  • (Lendenfeld, 1886)
  • Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
  • Rao, 1941
  • Lévi, 1969
  • Thiele, 1905
  • (Dendy, 1905)
  • Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
  • (Lendenfeld, 1886)
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • (Schulz, 1900)
  • (Lendenfeld, 1889)
  • (Lendenfeld, 1889)
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • Lamarck, 1814
  • (Lendenfeld, 1889)
  • (Whitelegge, 1901)
  • (Schulze, 1879)
  • Helmy, El Serehy, Mohamed & van Soest, 2004
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • (Poléjaeff, 1884)
  • Thiele, 1905
  • de Laubenfels, 1954
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • Schmidt, 1862
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • (Schmidt, 1862)
  • Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • de Laubenfels, 1950
  • Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759
  • (Lendenfeld, 1889)
  • (Lendenfeld, 1889)
  • (Lendenfeld, 1889)
  • (Wilson, 1902)
  • Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • (Lendenfeld, 1886)
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • (Lendenfeld, 1888)
  • de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
  • (Wilson, 1925)
  • (Kirkpatrick, 1900)
  • de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
  • Hyatt, 1877
  • (Dendy, 1905)
  • Lamarck, 1814
  • Lévi, 1969
  • (Schmidt, 1868)
  • Schmidt, 1862

References[]

  1. ^ a b van Soest, R. (2014). Spongia. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131759 on 2014-04-25


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