Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha

Merliida Vacelet, 1979

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

*Hamacanthidae*	Gray, 1872	taxonomically included in
*Merliidae*	Kirkpatrick, 1908	taxonomically included in

Children

Hamacanthidae Gray, 1872
Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908

Literature

original description	Vacelet, J. (1979). Descriptions et affinités d'une éponge sphinctozoaire actuelle. In: Lévi C, Boury-Esnault N (eds) Biologie des Spongiaires. Sponge Biology. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique, Paris. 291, 483-493.
basis of record	Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). Frontiers in Zoology. 12: 7.
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	Vacelet, J. (1981). Éponges hypercalcifées ('Pharétronides', 'Sclérosponges') des cavités des récifs coralliens de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (4, A). 3 (2):313-351.

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. Merliida. 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:845502