Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Desmacellida > Family Desmacellidae > Genus Desmacella

Desmacella annexa Schmidt, 1870

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Desmacella*	Schmidt, 1870	accepted genus name
*Desmacodes*	Schmidt, 1870	synonym
*Tylodesma*	Thiele, 1903	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: shaggy 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 hispide

Literature

original description	Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI.
additional source	Burton, M. (1959). Sponges. In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition 1933-34. 10(5). British Museum (Natural History): London. Pp. 151-281.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1925). Etude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII.
additional source	Voultsiadou, E. (2005). Sponge diversity in the Aegean Sea: Check list and new information. Italian Zoology. 72 (1): 53-64.
additional source	Burton, M. (1954). Sponges. Pp. 215-239, pl. 9. In: The 'Rosaura' Expedition. Part 5. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. 2 (6).
additional source	Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M. (2014). New and rare sponges from the deep shelf of the Alboran Island (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean). Zootaxa. 3760: 141–179.
additional source	Longo, C.; Mastrototaro, F.; Corriero, G. (2005). Sponge fauna associated with a Mediterranean deep-sea coral bank. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 85: 1341-1352.
additional source	Muricy, G.; Lopes, D.A.; Hajdu, E; Carvalho, M.S.; Moraes, F.C.; Klautau, M.; Menegola, C.; Pinheiro, U. (2011). Catalogue of Brazilian Porifera. Museu Nacional, Série Livros. 300 pp.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1892). Contribution à l'étude des Spongiaires de l'Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco. 2: 1-165, pls I-XI.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1891). Spongaires des côtes océaniques de France. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 6: 125-129.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1936). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Deuxième partie). Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 686: 1-7.
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	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. (1988). Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands. 70(215): 1-175.
additional source	Ferrer Hernández, F. (1914). Esponjas del Cantábrico. Parte 2. III. Myxospongida. IV. Tetraxonida. V. Triaxonida. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Zoológica). 17: 1-46.
additional source	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
additional source	Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1887). Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 20 (part 59): i-lxviii, 1-275, pl. 1-51, 1 map.
redescription	Cavalcanti, T.; Santos, G.G.; Pinheiro, U. (2015). Desmacella Schmidt, 1870 from Brazil: Description of two new species and a review of records (Desmacellida: Demospongiae: Porifera). Zootaxa. 4034(2): 364-374.
biology source	Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Erpenbeck, D.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Maggs, C.; Allcock, A. (2012). Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62(1): 174-190.

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. Desmacella annexa Schmidt, 1870. 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:133206