Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Tetractinellida > Suborder Spirophorina > Family Tetillidae > Genus Craniella

Craniella cranium (Müller, 1776)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tetilla Schmidt, 1868

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Craniella*	Schmidt, 1870	accepted genus name
*Craniellopsis*	Topsent, 1913	synonym

Species group names

*Alcyonium cranium*	Müller, 1776	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Tetillidae Sollas, 1888. Pp. 85-98. In: Hooper J.N.A., Van Soest R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
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.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Rützler, K. (2002). Family Tetillidae Sollas, 1888. Pp. 85-98. 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, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
additional source	Topsent, E. (1895). Campagnes du yacht Princess Alice. Notice sur les spongiaires recueillis en 1894 et 1895. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 20: 213-216.
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additional source	Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. (1994). Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d'Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 160: 1-174.
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additional source	Topsent, E. (1891). Spongaires des côtes océaniques de France. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 6: 125-129.
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additional source	Uriz, M.J. (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina. 3: 9-157.
additional source	Díaz, J.A.; Ordines, F.; Massutí, E.; Cárdenas, P. (2024). From caves to seamounts: the hidden diversity of tetractinellid sponges from the Balearic Islands, with the description of eight new species. PeerJ. 12.
additional source	Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. (1976). Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie). 49:1-116, pls I-X.
additional source	Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Ambroso, S.; Uriz, M.-J.; Gori, A.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gili, J.-M. (2018). Sponge assemblages on the deep Mediterranean continental shelf and slope (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 131: 75-86.
additional source	Rützler, K.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Piantoni, C. (2009). Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A & M Press, College Station, Texas. 285–313.
additional source	Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 1036 pp.
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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.

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. Craniella cranium (Müller, 1776). 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:171330