Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Tetractinellida > Suborder Astrophorina > Family Ancorinidae > Genus Stelletta

Stelletta hispida (Bucchich, 1886)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Ancorina Schmidt, 1862

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stelletta*	Schmidt, 1862	accepted genus name
*Stellata*		orthographic variant
*Tethia*	Nardo, 1847	orthographic variant
*Astrella*	Sollas, 1886	synonym
*Dorypleres*	Sollas, 1888	synonym
*Dragmastra*	Sollas, 1888	synonym
*Myriastra*	Sollas, 1886	synonym
*Pilochrota*	Sollas, 1886	synonym
*Stelletta (Pilochrota)*	Sollas, 1886	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Topsent, E. (1894). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. I.Tetractinellida. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. (3) 2:259-400, pls XI-XVI.
additional source	Costa, G.; Betti, F.; Nepote, E.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Pansini, M.; Bavestrello, G.; Bertolino, M. (2018). Sponge community variations within two semi-submerged caves of the Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) over a half-century time span. The European Zoological Journal. 85 (1): 382-392.
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	Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 1036 pp.
additional source	Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. 84: 445-621.
additional source	Pansini, M. (1987). Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. In: Vacelet J, Boury-Esnault N (eds) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series G, Ecological Sciences Springer, Heidelberg. 13, 149-185.
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	Boury-Esnault, N.; Lopes, M.T. (1985). Les Démosponges littorales de l'Archipel des Açores. Annales de l'Institut océanographique. 61(2): 149-225.
additional source	Lombas, I. (1982). Distribución, de esponjas esciafilas en la zona intermareal de Aramar (Luanco, Asturias). Boletim de Ciencias Naturales IDEA. 29: 37-50.
additional source	Voultsiadou, E. (2005). Sponge diversity in the Aegean Sea: Check list and new information. Italian Zoology. 72 (1): 53-64.
additional source	Arnesen, E. (1920 [1932]). Spongia. Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition, 1910. 3 (II): 1-29.
additional source	Babiç, K. (1922). Monactinellida und Tetractinellida des Adriatischen Meeres. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere. 46(2): 217-302, pls 8-9.
additional source	Naveiro Millán, A. (2002). Poríferos de la costa da Arrábida (Portugal). Clase Demospongiae. Tesina Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 165 pp.
additional source	Cruz, T. (2002). Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias. S/C Tenerife. 260 pp.
additional source	Lévi, C. (1960). Spongiaires des côtes occidentales africaines. Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles). 22 (3): 743-769.
additional source	Uriz, M.J. (1981). Estudio sistemático de las esponjas Astrophorida (Demospongia) de los fondos de pesca de arrastre, entre Tossa y Calella (Cataluña). Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía. 6(4):7-58.

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. Stelletta hispida (Bucchich, 1886). 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:133976