Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Clionaida > Family Clionaidae > Genus Spiroxya

Spiroxya levispira (Topsent, 1898)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cliona Grant, 1826

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spiroxya*	Topsent, 1896	accepted genus name
*Scantiletta*	Laubenfels, 1936	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Rützler, K. (2002). Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J. (2009). New bioeroding sponges from Mingulay coldwater reefs, north-west Scotland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 89 (2): 329-335.
additional source	Calcinai, B.; Sacco Perasso, C.; Davidde Petriaggi, B.; Ricci, S. (2019). Endolithic and epilithic sponges of archaeological marble statues recovered in the Blue Grotto, Capri (Italy) and in the Antikythera shipwreck (Greece). Facies. 65(2).

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. Spiroxya levispira (Topsent, 1898). 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:183648