Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Keratosa

Dendroceratida Minchin, 1900

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Darwinellidae Merejkowsky, 1879
Dictyodendrillidae Bergquist, 1980

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: 樹状角質海綿目

Literature

original description	Minchin, E.A. (1900). Chapter III. Sponges. Pp. 1-178. In: Lankester, E.R.(Ed.), A Treatise on Zoology. Part II. The Porifera and Coelenterata. 2. (Adam & Charles Black: London).
basis of record	Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). Frontiers in Zoology. 12: 7.
additional source	Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S. de C. (2002). Order Dendroceratida Minchin, 1900. Pp. 1067. 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 Publishers: New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0.
additional source	Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S. de C. (2002 [2004]). Order Dendroceratida Minchin, 1900. Pp. 1067. 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 Publishers: New York,. 1708 + XVLIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Erpenbeck, D.; Sutcliffe, P.; Cook, S. de C.; Dietzel, A.; Maldonado, M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Wörheide, G. (2012). Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (3): 809-816.

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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. Dendroceratida. 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:131594