Database details
| Full name: | World Porifera Database |
|---|---|
| Short name: | WoRMS Porifera |
| Version: | Oct 2008 |
| Release date: | 2008-10-22 |
| Authors/editors: | R. van Soest (ed) |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Porifera |
| English name of the group: | Sponges |
| Number of species: | 8,215 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 299 |
| Number of synonyms: | 8,284 |
| Number of common names: | 42 |
| Total number of names: | 16,840 |
| Abstract: | The World Porifera database is a searchable catalogue of recent sponge species and higher taxon names. The catalogue is intended to promote stability and act as a tool for higher taxon revisions, regional monographs, and eventually as a catalogue of the world’s sponge specimen databases as these are slowly being accumulated through EurOBIS and GBIF. Data are contributed to the Catalogue of Life via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). |
| Organization: | Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera |