Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Dictyoceratida > Family Spongiidae > Genus Spongia

Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spongia*	Linnaeus, 1759	accepted genus name

Subgenus group names

*Ditela*	Schmidt, 1862	synonym
*Euspongia*	Bronn, 1859	synonym

Children

Spongia (Spongia) agaricina Pallas, 1766
Spongia (Spongia) hispida Lamarck, 1814
Spongia (Spongia) irregularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Spongia (Spongia) nitens (Schmidt, 1862)
Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759
Spongia (Spongia) virgultosa (Schmidt, 1868)
Spongia (Spongia) zimocca Schmidt, 1862

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1759). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. - pp. [1-4], 825-1384. Holmiæ. (L. Salvii).
basis of record	Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. 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).

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759. 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:165158