Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Myxillina > Family Desmacididae > Genus Desmacidon

Desmacidon fruticosum (Montagu, 1814)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Desmacidon*	Bowerbank, 1861	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Spongia fruticosa*	Montagu, 1814	basionym
*Spongia fruticosa*	Montagu, 1814	synonym

Literature

original description	Montagu, G. 1814. An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Desmacididae Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 572-574. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).
additional source	Lévi, C.; Vacelet, J. 1958. Éponges récoltées dans l’Atlantique oriental par le ‘Président Théodore-Tissier’ (1955-1956). Revue des Travaux de l’Institut des Pêches maritimes 22 (2): 225-246.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103
additional source	Lévi, C. 1960c. Spongiaires des côtes occidentales africaines. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A, Sciences naturelles) 22(3): 743-769.
additional source	Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea. J. Nat. Hist. 26: 1131-1161

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Desmacidon fruticosum (Montagu, 1814). In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133526