Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Tetractinellida

Spirophorina Bergquist & Hogg, 1969

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Azoricidae Sollas, 1888
Samidae Sollas, 1888
Scleritodermidae Sollas, 1888
Siphonidiidae Lendenfeld, 1903
Tetillidae Sollas, 1886

Literature

original description	Bergquist, P.R.; Hogg, J.J. (1969). Free amino acid patterns in demospongiae: a biochemical approach to sponge classification. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 10 (2): 205-220, 1 plate.
basis of record	Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). Frontiers in Zoology. 12: 7.
taxonomy source	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Order Spirophorida Bergquist & Hogg, 1969. Pp. 83-84. 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 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
taxonomy source	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002 [2004]). Order Spirophorida Bergquist & Hogg, 1969. Pp. 83-84. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).

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. Spirophorina. 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:131606