Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcinea > Order Clathrinida > Family Clathrinidae > Genus Clathrina

Clathrina primordialis (Haeckel, 1872)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Prosycum Haeckel, 1870

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Clathrina*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name
*Ascetta*	Haeckel, 1872	synonym
*Guancha*	Miklucho-Maclay, 1868	synonym
*Nardoa*	Schmidt, 1862	synonym
*Prosycum*	Haeckel, 1870	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Klautau, M.; Valentine, C. (2003). Revision of the genus Clathrina (Porifera, Calcarea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139(1): 1-62.
additional source	Row, R.W.H. (1909). Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea. XIII. Report on the Sponges, collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 1904-5. Part I. Calcarea. Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology. 31 (206): 182-214.
additional source	Kirkpatrick, R. (1900). On the Sponges of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoolological Society of London. 1900: 127-141, pls XII-XIII.
additional source	Ereskovsky, A.; Morozov, G. (2025). Checklist of sponges (Porifera) from the White Sea, Arctic. Zootaxa. 5584(1): 71-86.
additional source	Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. Beaufortia. 48 (5): 71-103.
additional source	Jenkin, C.F. (1908). The Marine Fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from Collections made by Cyril Crossland M.A., in the Years 1901 & 1902, The Calcareous Sponges. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1908 : 434-456.
additional source	Alcolado, PM. (2007). Comunidades de esponjas de manglares de Cuba in: Ecosistemas de manglar en el archipélago cubano, (eds Carrera, LM; Guzman JM). Academia de Cuba, La Habana. pp 243-253.
additional source	Díaz, M.C. (2005). Common sponges from shallow marine habitats from Bocas del Toro region, Panama. Caribbean Journal of Science. 41(3): 465-475.
additional source	Borojevic, R.; Peixinho, S. (1976). Eponges calcaires du Nord-Nord-Est du Brésil. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 3(402): 987-1036.
additional source	Klautau, M.; Imešek, M.; Azevedo, F.; Pleše, B.; Nikolić, V.; Ćetković, H. (2016). Adriatic calcarean sponges (Porifera, Calcarea), with the description of six new species and a richness analysis. European Journal of Taxonomy. 178: 1-52.
additional source	Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. Téthys. 3(4): 717-758.

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. Clathrina primordialis (Haeckel, 1872). 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:150268