Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Baeriida > Family Petrobionidae > Genus Petrobiona

Petrobiona massiliana Vacelet & Lévi, 1958

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Petrobiona*	Vacelet & Lévi, 1958	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Vacelet, J.; Lévi, C. (1958). Un cas de survivance, en Méditerranée, du groupe d'éponges fossiles des Pharétronides. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 246(2): 318-320.
basis of record	Vacelet, J. (1964). Étude monographique de l'éponge calcaire pharétronide de Méditerranée, Petrobiona massiliana Vacelet et Lévi. Les Pharétronides actuelles et fossiles. Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume. 34(50): 1-125.
basis of record	Vacelet, J.; Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M. (2002). Order Lithonida Vacelet, 1981, Recent. Pp. 1185-1192. 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 + xlviii. ISBN 0-36-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Vacelet, J.; Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M. (2002 [2004]). Order Lithonida Vacelet, 1981, Recent. Pp. 1185-1192. 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 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Manconi, R.; Ledda, F.D.; Serusi, A.; Corso, G.; Stocchino, G.A. (2009). Sponges of marine caves: Notes on the status of the Mediterranean palaeoendemic Petrobiona massiliana (Porifera: Calcarea: Lithonida) with new records from Sardinia. Italian Journal of Zoology. 76: 306-315.
additional source	Knittweis, L.; Chevaldonné, P.; Ereskovsky, A.; Schembri, P.J.; Borg, J.A. (2015). A preliminary survey of marine cave habitats in the Maltese Islands. Xjenza Online. 3:153-164.
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).
additional source	Harmelin, J.-G.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Fichez, R.; Vacelet, J.; Zibrowius, H. (2003). Peuplement de la grotte sous-marine de l'ile de Bagaud (Parc national de Port-Cros, France, Méditerranée). Rapport scientifique du Parc national de Port-Cros. 19: 117-134.
additional source	Hermans J.; Dubois P.; Andre L.; Vacelet J.; Willenz P. (2010). Growth rate and chemical features of the massive calcium carbonate skeleton of Petrobiona massiliana (Baeriida: Calcaronea: Calcispongiae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 90(4): 749‑754.
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N., G. Bellan, D. Bellan-Santini, C.F. Boudouresque, P.Chevaldonné, A. Dias, D. Faget, J.G. Harmelin, M. Harmelin-Vivien, C. Lejeusne, T. Pérez, J. Vacelet, M. Verlaque. (2023). The Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille: 150 years of natural history. Zootaxa. 5249(2): 213-252.
additional source	Laborel, J.; Vacelet, J. (1959). Les grottes sous-marines obscures en Méditerranée. Comptes-Rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. 248: 2619-2621.
additional source	Voultsiadou, E.; Gerovasileiou, V.; Bailly, N. (2016). Porifera of Greece: an updated checklist. Biodiversity Data Journal. 4: e7984.
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	Vacelet, J. (1980). Les affinités du peuplement de Spongiaires de la Méditerranée. Journées Etudes Systématique et Biogéographie Méditerranée - Cagliari. 29-30.
additional source	Rützler, K. (1966). Die Poriferen einer sorrentiner Höhle. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Tyrrhenia-Expedition 1952. Teil. XVIII. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 176 (5), 303-319.
biology source	Gilis, M.; Baronnet, A.; Dubois, P.; Legras, L.; Grauby, O.; Willenz, P. (2012). Biologically controlled mineralization in the hypercalcified sponge Petrobiona massiliana (Calcarea, Calcaronea). Journal of Structural Biology. 178(3): 279-289.
biology source	Gallissian, M.-F.; Vacelet, J. (1990). Fertilisation and nutrition of the oocyte in the calcified sponge Petrobiona massiliana. In: Rützler K (ed) New Perspectives in Sponge Biology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC. pp 175-181.
biology source	Gilis, M.; Grauby, O.; Willenz, P.; Dubois, P.; Legras, L.; Heresanu, V.; Baronnet, A. (2011). Multi-scale mineralogical characterization of the hypercalcified sponge Petrobiona massiliana (Calcarea, Calcaronea). Journal of Structural Biology. 176: 315–329.
biology source	Gallissian, M.-F.; Vacelet, J. (1992). Ultrastructure of the oocyte and embryo of the calcified sponge, Petrobiona massiliana (Porifera, Calcarea). Zoomorphology. 112: 133-141.
biology source	Gilis, M.; Gosselin, P.; Dubois, P.; Willenz, P. (2011). Seasonal modifications and morphogenesis of the hypercalcified sponge Petrobiona massiliana (Calcarea, Calcaronea). Invertebrate Biology. 130(3): 193-210.

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. Petrobiona massiliana Vacelet & Lévi, 1958. 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:164644