Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Poecilosclerida > Family Cladorhizidae > Genus Lycopodina

Lycopodina lycopodium (Levinsen, 1887)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Esperella Vosmaer, 1887

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lycopodina*	Lundbeck, 1905	accepted genus name
*Asbestopluma (Lycopodina)*	Lundbeck, 1905	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Hestetun, J.T.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Borchiellini, C.; Kelly, M.; Ríos P.; Cristobo, J.; Rapp, H.T. (2016). The systematics of carnivorous sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94, 327–345.
additional source	Hestetun, J.T.; Tompkins-Macdonald, G.; Rapp, H.T. (2017). A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181, 1-69.
additional source	Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9. 1-102.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2016). Sponge-collecting from a drifting ice floe: the Porifera obtained in the Kara Sea by the Dutch Polar Expedition 1882-83. Contributions to Zoology. 85 (3): 311-326.

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. Lycopodina lycopodium (Levinsen, 1887). 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:863531