Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Bubarida > Family Desmanthidae > Genus Desmanthus

Desmanthus incrustans (Topsent, 1889)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Aciculites Schmidt, 1879

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Desmanthus*	Topsent, 1893	accepted genus name

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.
basis of record	Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. (2002). Family Desmanthidae Topsent, 1893. Pp. 356-362. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. (2002 [2004]). Family Desmanthidae Topsent, 1893. Pp. 356-362. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers) NY. 1708+xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1972 [1970]). Report on a collection of sponges from the Bay of Naples. 1. Sclerospongiae, Lithistida, Tetractinellida, Epipolasida. Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli. 38 (2): 328-354.
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	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	Kobluk, D.R.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1989). Cavity dwelling sponges in a southern Caribbean coral reef and their paleontological implications. Bulletin of Marine Science. 44(3): 1207-1235.
additional source	Macintyre, I.G.; Rützler, K.; Norris, J.N.; Fauchald, K. (1982). A submarine cave near Columbus Cay, Belize: a bizarre cryptic habitat. In: K. Rützler and I.G. Macintyre (Eds.). The Atlantic Barrier Reef Ecosystem at Carrie Bow Bay, Belize, I: Structure and Communities. Washington, DC,. Smithsonian Press, Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Science. 127-141.
additional source	Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. Téthys. 3(4): 717-758.
additional source	Lévi, C.; Lévi, P. (1989). Spongiaires (MUSORSTOM 1 & 2). In: Forest, J. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, volume 4. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 143: 25-103.
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	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	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2000). New species of Desmanthus (Porifera, Demospongiae) with a discussion of its ordinal relationships. Zoosystema. 22 (2): 299-312.
source of synonymy	Topsent, E. (1893). Nouvelle série de diagnoses d'éponges de Roscoff et de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. 3) 1 (Notes et Revue 10): xxxiii-xliii.

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. Desmanthus incrustans (Topsent, 1889). 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:134341