Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Haplosclerida > Family Niphatidae > Genus Hemigellius

Hemigellius arcofer (Vosmaer, 1885)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Haliclona Grant, 1841

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hemigellius*	Burton, 1932	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Haliclona (Gellius) arcoferus*		orthographic variant
*Hemigellius arcoferus*		orthographic variant
*Hemigellius plexus*	(Lundbeck, 1902)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: arched horny sponge sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: éponge arquée

Literature

basis of record	de Weerdt, W.H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1987). A review of north-eastern Atlantic Hemigellius (Niphatidae, Haplosclerida), In: Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (Ed.) (1987). Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G: Ecological sciences. 13: pp. 309-321.

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. Hemigellius arcofer (Vosmaer, 1885). 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:166752