WoRMS taxon details
Spongosorites Topsent, 1896
131818 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131818)
accepted
Genus
Spongosorites placenta Topsent, 1896 (type by monotypy)
Aponastra Topsent, 1927 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Oxeostilon Ferrer-Hernandez, 1923 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Spongosorites andamanensis Pattanayak, 2006
- Species Spongosorites annandalei (Ferrer Hernández, 1923)
- Species Spongosorites arenatus Diaz, van Soest & Pomponi, 1993
- Species Spongosorites beringensis Lehnert & Stone, 2017
- Species Spongosorites cabliersi Santín, Grinyó & Lo Iacono, 2021
- Species Spongosorites calcicola Picton & Goodwin, 2007
- Species Spongosorites cavernicola Bibiloni, 1993
- Species Spongosorites coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915)
- Species Spongosorites dendyi (Topsent, 1927)
- Species Spongosorites difficilis (Lundbeck, 1902)
- Species Spongosorites flavens Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
- Species Spongosorites hentscheli Lévi, 1956
- Species Spongosorites incisus Sarà, 1978
- Species Spongosorites indicus Hentschel, 1912
- Species Spongosorites intricatus (Topsent, 1892)
- Species Spongosorites lapidiformis Dendy, 1905
- Species Spongosorites niger (Dendy, 1922)
- Species Spongosorites placenta Topsent, 1896
- Species Spongosorites porites de Laubenfels, 1949
- Species Spongosorites ruetzleri (van Soest & Stentoft, 1988)
- Species Spongosorites siliquaria van Soest & Stentoft, 1988
- Species Spongosorites smithae Desqueyroux-Faúndez & van Soest, 1997
- Species Spongosorites topsenti Dendy, 1905
- Species Spongosorites bubaroides Lévi & Lévi, 1983 accepted as Topsentia bubaroides (Lévi & Lévi, 1983) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites compactus Sarà, 1978 accepted as Topsentia compacta (Sarà, 1978) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites fibrosus (Fristedt, 1887) accepted as Topsentia fibrosa (Fristedt, 1887) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites genitrix (Schmidt, 1870) accepted as Halichondria (Halichondria) genitrix (Schmidt, 1870) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites glabra (Topsent, 1898) accepted as Topsentia glabra (Topsent, 1898) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites lamellata Dendy, 1905 accepted as Axinella lamellata (Dendy, 1905) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites maximus Uriz, 1983 accepted as Characella pachastrelloides (Carter, 1876) (unaccepted > junior objective synonym)
- Species Spongosorites novaezealandiae Dendy, 1924 accepted as Topsentia novaezealandiae (Dendy, 1924) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites pachastrelloides (Topsent, 1892) accepted as Topsentia pachastrelloides (Topsent, 1892) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites rigidior Topsent, 1928 accepted as Spongosorites coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915) (junior synonym)
- Species Spongosorites salomonensis Dendy, 1922 accepted as Topsentia salomonensis (Dendy, 1922) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites sinuatus Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 accepted as Topsentia ophiraphidites (de Laubenfels, 1934) (genus transfer & junior synonym)
- Species Spongosorites suberitoides Diaz, van Soest & Pomponi, 1993 accepted as Pseudospongosorites suberitoides (Diaz, van Soest & Pomponi, 1993) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites suluensis Wilson, 1925 accepted as Epipolasis suluensis (Wilson, 1925) (genus transfer)
- Species Spongosorites topsenti Lévi & Vacelet, 1958 accepted as Topsentia levivaceletorum Van Soest & Hooper, 2020 (genus transfer and preoccupied)
- Species Spongosorites variabilis Whitelegge, 1907 accepted as Dragmaxia variabilis (Whitelegge, 1907) (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
masculine
Topsent, E. (1896). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> (9):113-133. [details] 
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Spongosorites Topsent, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131818 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Topsent, E. (1896). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. <em>Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France.</em> (9):113-133. [details] 
original description (of Oxeostilon Ferrer-Hernandez, 1923) Ferrer Hernández, F. (1923 [1922]). Más datos para el conocimiento de las esponjas de las costas españolas. <em>Boletín de Pescas.</em> 7: 247-272. [details]
original description (of Aponastra Topsent, 1927) Topsent, E. (1927). Diagnoses d'Éponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert ler de Monaco. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique Monaco.</em> (502): 1-19.
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original description (of Aponastra Topsent, 1927) Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI. [details]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Oxeostilon Ferrer-Hernandez, 1923) Ferrer Hernández, F. (1923 [1922]). Más datos para el conocimiento de las esponjas de las costas españolas. <em>Boletín de Pescas.</em> 7: 247-272. [details]
original description (of Aponastra Topsent, 1927) Topsent, E. (1927). Diagnoses d'Éponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert ler de Monaco. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique Monaco.</em> (502): 1-19.
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Aponastra Topsent, 1927) Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. <em>Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco.</em> 74:1-376, pls I-XI. [details]
basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-816. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors

basis of record Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002[2004]). Family Halichondriidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 787-815. <em>In Hooper, JN. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum NY, 1708 + xvliii.</em> ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

Other
additional source
Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details] 




Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]