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

Poecillastra saxicola (Topsent, 1892)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Characella Sollas, 1886

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Poecillastra*	Sollas, 1888	accepted genus name
*Normania*	Bowerbank, 1869	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	Topsent, E. (1934). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco. (Première partie). Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 650: 1-42.
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.

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. Poecillastra saxicola (Topsent, 1892). 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:134090