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

Discodermia verrucosa Topsent, 1928

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Discodermia*	du Bocage, 1869	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco. 74:1-376, pls I-XI.
additional source	Pomponi, S.A.; Kelly, M.; Reed, J.K.; Wright, A.E. (2001). Diversity and bathymetric distribution of lithistid sponges in the tropical western Atlantic. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 10: 344-353.
additional source	Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen). 4: 111-147.
additional source	Carvalho, F.C.; Pomponi, S.A.; Xavier, J.R. (2015). Lithistid sponges of the upper bathyal of Madeira, Selvagens and Canary Islands, with description of a new species of Isabella. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95 (7), 1287-1296.
additional source	Carvalho, F. C.; Cárdenas, P.; Ríos, P.; Cristobo, J.; Rapp, H. T.; Xavier, J. R. (2020). Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species. PeerJ. 8: e8703.

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. Discodermia verrucosa Topsent, 1928. 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:171236