Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Poecilosclerida > Family Cladorhizidae > Genus Lycopodina

Lycopodina hypogea (Vacelet & Boury-Esnault, 1996)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lycopodina*	Lundbeck, 1905	accepted genus name
*Asbestopluma (Lycopodina)*	Lundbeck, 1905	synonym

Species group names

*Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) hypogea*	Vacelet & Boury-Esnault, 1996	synonym
*Asbestopluma hypogea*	Vacelet & Boury-Esnault, 1996	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Hestetun, J.T.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Borchiellini, C.; Kelly, M.; Ríos P.; Cristobo, J.; Rapp, H.T. (2016). The systematics of carnivorous sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94, 327–345.
additional source	Fourt, M.; Goujard, A.; Pérez, T.; Chevaldonné, P. (2017). Guide de la faune profonde de la mer Méditerranée. Explorations des roches et des canyons sous-marins des côtes françaises. Patrimoines naturels. Publications scientifiques du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris. 75: 1-184.
additional source	Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, M.; Farias, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2019). Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 99 (4): 807 - 831.
additional source	Santín, A.; Grinyó, J.; Bilan, M.; Ambroso, S.; Puig, P. (2020). First report of the carnivorous sponge Lycopodina hypogea (Cladorhizidae) associated with marine debris, and its possible implications on deep-sea connectivity. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 159 (111501): 1-7.
additional source	Bo, M.; Al Mabruk, S.A.A.; Balisteri, P.; Bariche, M.; Batjakas, I.E; Betti, F.; Bilan, M.; Canese, S.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Corsinifoka, M.; Crocetta, F.; Deidun, A.; Dulčić, J.; Grynyo, J.; Kampouris, T.E.; Ketsilis-Rinis, V.; Kousteni, V.; Koustedi, M.; Lubinevsky, H.; Mavruk, S.: Mytilineou, C.; Petani, A.; Puig, P.; Salomidi, M.; Sbragaglia, V.; Smith, C.J.; Stern, N.; Toma, M.; Tsiamis, K.; Zava, B.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2020). New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (November 2020). Mediterranean Marine Science. 21 (3) : 608-630.
biology source	Le Goff, E.; Martinand-Mari, C.; Belkhir, K.; Vacelet, J.; Nidelet, S.; Godefroy, N.; Baghdiguian, S. (2022). Molecular complexity and gene expression controlling cell turnover during a digestive cycle of carnivorous sponge Lycopodina hypogea. Cell and Tissue Research. 388(2): 399-416.
biology source	Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Le Goff, E.; Ereskovsky, A. (2022). Spermatogenesis in the carnivorous sponge Lycopodina hypogea (Porifera, Demospongiae). Zoomorphology. 141(1): 1-17.

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. Lycopodina hypogea (Vacelet & Boury-Esnault, 1996). 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:863529