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

Placospongia Gray, 1867

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Physcaphora*	Hanitsch, 1895	synonym

Children

Placospongia decorticans (Hanitsch, 1895)

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1867). On Placospongia, a new generic form of Spongiadae in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 127-129.
basis of record	Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Placospongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 196-200. 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 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Rützler, K. (2002). Family Placospongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 196-200. 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 (printed version).
basis of record	Becking, L.E. (2013). Revision of the genus Placospongia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida, Placospongiidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. ZooKeys. 298: 39-76.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103.
additional source	Vosmaer, G.C.J.; Vernhout, J.H. (1902). The Porifera of the Siboga-Expedition. I. The genus Placospongia. In: Weber, M. (Ed.), Siboga-Expeditie. Uitkomsten op zoologisch, botanisch, oceanographisch en geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-lndië 1899-1900aan boord H.M. ‘Siboga' onder commando van Luitenant ter Zee 1e kl. G.F. Tydeman. 9 (Monographie VIa) (E.J. Brill, Leiden): 1-17, pls. 1-V.

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. Placospongia Gray, 1867. 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:132044