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

Neophrissospongia nolitangere (Schmidt, 1870)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Corallistes Schmidt, 1870

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Neophrissospongia*	Pisera & Lévi, 2002	accepted genus name

Literature

basis of record	Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. (2002 [2004]). Family Corallistidae Sollas, 1888. Pp. 312-320. 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 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. (2002). Family Corallistidae Sollas, 1888. Pp. 312-320. 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).
additional source	Pisera, A.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2021). Lithistid Demosponges of Deep-Water Origin in Marine Caves of the North-Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8 (630900): 1-19.
additional source	Xavier, J.R.; Rees, D.J.; Pereira, R.; Colaço, A.; Pham, C.K.; Carvalho, F.C. (2021). Diversity, Distribution and Phylogenetic Relationships of Deep-Sea Lithistids (Porifera, Heteroscleromorpha) of the Azores Archipelago. Frontiers in Marine Sciience. 8:600087.
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.
redescription	Pisera, A.; Vacelet, J. (2011). Lithistid sponges from submarine caves in the Mediterranean: taxonomy and affinities. Scientia Marina. 75 (1), 17-40.

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. Neophrissospongia nolitangere (Schmidt, 1870). 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:171086