Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida > Family Grantiidae > Genus Grantia

Grantia arctica (Haeckel, 1872)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sycum Agassiz, 1846

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Grantia*	Fleming, 1828	accepted genus name
*Sphenophorina*	Breitfuss, 1898	synonym

Species group names

*Sycon arcticum*	(Haeckel, 1870)	synonym; nom. nud.

Literature

basis of record	Rapp, H.T. (2015). A monograph of the calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) of Greenland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95 (7), 1395-1459.
additional source	Morozov, G.; Strelkova, N. (2024). On some Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea) from the Barents Sea and adjacent Polar Basin. Zootaxa. 5529(3): 532-550.
new combination reference	Breitfuss, L.L. (1898). Kalkschwammfauna des weissen Meeres und der Eismeersküsten des europäischen Russlands. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg. (VIII) 6 (2): 1-40.

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. Grantia arctica (Haeckel, 1872). 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:184502