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

Cinachyrella alloclada (Uliczka, 1929)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cinachyra Sollas, 1886

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cinachyrella*	Wilson, 1925	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: orange ball sponge

Literature

basis of record	Rützler, K.; Smith, P. (1992). Guide to western Atlantic species of Cinachyrella (Porifera: Tetillidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 105(1): 148-164.
additional source	Bettcher, L.; Fernandez, J.C.; Gastaldi, M.; Bispo, A.; Leal, C.V.; Leite, D.; Avelino-Alves, D.; Clerier, P.H.; Rezende, D.; Gulart, C.M.; Pinheiro, U.; Hajdu, E. (2023). Checklist, diversity descriptors and selected descriptions of a highly diverse intertidal sponge (Porifera) assemblage at Costa do Descobrimento (Bahia, Brazil). Zootaxa. 5277(3): 443-489.
additional source	Hajdu, E.; Peixinho, S.; Fernandez, J.C.C. (2011). Esponjas Marinhas da Bahia - Guia de Campo e Laboratório. Série Livros 45. Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro. 276 pp.
additional source	Freeman, C.J.: Gleason, D.F.; Ruzicka, R.; van Soest R.W.M.; Harvey, A.W.; McFall G. (2007). A biogeographic comparison of sponge fauna from Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary and other hard-bottom reefs of coastal Georgia, U.S.A. pp 319-325 In: Custódio MR, Lôbo-Hajdu G, Hajdu E, Muricy G (eds) Porifera Research. Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability. Livros de Museu Nacional 28, Rio de Janeiro.
additional source	Lehnert, H.; van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Shallow water sponges of Jamaica. Beaufortia. 48 (5): 71-103.
additional source	Díaz, M.C. (2005). Common sponges from shallow marine habitats from Bocas del Toro region, Panama. Caribbean Journal of Science. 41(3): 465-475.
additional source	Barnathan, G.; Miralles, J.; Gaydou, E.M.; Boury-Esnault, N; Kornprobst, J.-M. (1992). New phospholipid Fatty acids from the Marine sponge Cinachyrella alloclada Uliczka. Lipids. 27(10): 779-784.
additional source	De La Cruz-Francisco, V. (2025). Esponjas marinas (Porifera: Demospongiae) de los espigones de Tuxpan, Veracruz, con nuevos registros para México. Novitates Caribaea. (25): 1-20.
additional source	Desplat, Y.; Warner, J.F.; Lopez, J.V. (2021). Holo-Transcriptome Sequences From the Tropical Marine Sponge Cinachyrella alloclada. Journal of Heredity. 113(2): 184-187.
additional source	Alcolado, P.M.; Busutil, L. (2012). Inventaire des spongiaires néritiques du Parc National de La Guadeloupe (Inventario de las esponjas neríticas del Parque Nacional de Guadalupe). Serie Oceanológica. 10, 62-76.
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.
additional source	Cárdenas, P.; Menegola, C.; Rapp, H.T.; Díaz, M.C. (2009). Morphological description and DNA barcodes of shallow-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Bocas del Toro, Panama, with description of a new species. Zootaxa. 2276: 1–39.
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	Soares, G.M.; Barros, F.; Lanna, E.; Da Silva, M.V.S.; Cavalcanti, F.F. (2022). Sponges as libraries: Increase in microplastics in Cinachyrella alloclada after 36 years. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 185: 114339.
new combination reference	Rützler, K. (1987). Tetillidae (Spirophorida, Porifera): a taxonomic reevaluation. In: Vacelet J, Boury-Esnault N (eds) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series G, Ecological Sciences volume 13. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 187-203.

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. Cinachyrella alloclada (Uliczka, 1929). 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:171291