Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Hadromerida > Family Clionaidae

Spiroxya Topsent, 1896

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Spiroxya heteroclita Topsent, 1896
Spiroxya levispira (Topsent, 1898)
Spiroxya pruvoti (Topsent, 1900)
Spiroxya sarai (Melone, 1965)

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. 1896a. Matériaux pour servir à l’étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France (9):113-133.
basis of record	Rützler, K. 2002. Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. 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	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

Genbank

External Links

GenBank
GBIF

Citation

Boury-Esnault, N.; van Soest, R. (2014). Spiroxya Topsent, 1896. 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. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/authority/http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132061