Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera

Calcarea Bowerbank, 1862

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Calcaronea Bidder, 1898
Calcinea Bidder, 1898

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kalksponzen sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: calcareous sponges

German: Kalkschwämme sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 石灰海綿綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: kalksvampar

Literature

original description	Bowerbank, J.S. (1864). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 1. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-290, pls I-XXXVII.
original description	Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part II. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 152(2): 747-829, pls XXVII-XXXV.
basis of record	Manuel, M.; Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Vacelet, J. (2002). Class Calcarea Bowerbank, 1864. Pp. 1103-1110. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Manuel, M.; Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Vacelet, J. (2002 [2004]). Class Calcarea Bowerbank, 1864. Pp. 1103-1110. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, NY, 1708+xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Borojevic, R. (1979). Evolution des spongiaires Calcarea. In: Lévi C, Boury-Esnault N (eds) Biologie des Spongiaires. Sponge Biology. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique, Paris. 291, 527-530.
additional source	Manuel, M. (2006). Phylogeny and evolution of calcareous sponges. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 84: 225–241.

Genbank

Citation

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. Calcarea. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:559