Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida > Family Grantiidae > Genus Grantia

Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Spongia Linnaeus, 1759

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Grantia*	Fleming, 1828	accepted genus name
*Sphenophorina*	Breitfuss, 1898	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: compressed purse sponge; purse sponge 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.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Beutel-Kalkschwamm; Meertäschchen

Literature

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additional source	Burton, M. (1951). The marine fauna. Part II. Report on the sponges. In: MacDonald, R.; McMillan, N.F. The natural history of Lough Foyle, Northern Ireland. Proceedings Royal Irish Academy (B). 54: 86.
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additional source	Boaden, P.J.S.; O'Connor, R.J.; Seed, R. (1976). Some observations on the size of the sponges Grantia compressa (Fabr.) and Sycon ciliatum (Fabr.) in Strangford Lough, Co. Down. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, section B. 76 (31): 535-542.
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additional source	Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II.
source of synonymy	Arnesen, E. (1900). Spongier fra den norske kyst I. Calcarea. Bergens Museum Aarbog. 5: 1-46, 1 pl.
new combination reference	Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda.
biology source	Gallissian, M.-F. (1983). Etude ultrastructurale du développement embryonnaiea chez Grantia compressa F (Porifera, Calcarea). Archives d'Anatomie microscopique. 72 (1): 59-75.
biology source	Gallissian, M.-F. (1980). Etude ultrastructurale de la fécondation chez Grantia compressa F. International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction. 2: 321-329.

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. Grantia compressa (Fabricius, 1780). 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:132181