| Full name: |
World Porifera database UPDATED!
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| Short name: |
WoRMS Porifera |
| Version: |
2016-03-01 |
| Release date: |
2016-03-01 |
| Authors/editors: |
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., D |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Animalia - Porifera |
| English name of the group: |
Sponges |
|
Number of living species |
8,716 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
270 |
| Number of extinct species: |
17 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
10,258 |
| Number of common names: |
245 |
| Total number of names: |
19,506 |
| 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
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| Bibliographic citation: |
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., D (2025). WoRMS Porifera: World Porifera database (version 2016-03-01). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |
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