Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea

Calcaronea Bidder, 1898

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Baeriida Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000
Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958
Lithonida Vacelet, 1981

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カルカロネア亜綱

Literature

original description	Bidder, G.P. (1898). The Skeleton and Classification of Calcareous Sponges. Proceedings of the Royal Society. 64: 61-76.
basis of record	Manuel, M.; Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Vacelet, J. (2002 [2004]). Class Calcarea Bowerbank, 1864. Pp. 1103-1110. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, NY, 1708+xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Manuel, M.; Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Vacelet, J. (2002). Class Calcarea Bowerbank, 1864. Pp. 1103-1110. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
additional source	Manuel, M.; Borchiellini, C.; Alivon, E.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2004). Molecular phylogeny of calcareous sponges using 18S rRNA and 28S rRNA sequences. In: Pansini M, Pronzato R, Bavestrello G, Manconi R, Sarà M (eds) Sponge Science in the New Millenium. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell'Universitá di Genova. 68, 449-461.
additional source	Manuel, M.; Borchiellini, C.; Alivon, E.; Le Parco, Y.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2003). Phylogeny and Evolution of Calcareous Sponges: Monophyly of Calcinea and Calcaronea, High Level of Morphological Homoplasy, and the Primitive Nature of Axial Symmetry. Systematic Biology. 53, 311-333.
additional source	Voigt, O.; Wülfing, E.; Wörheide, G. (2012). Molecular Phylogenetic Evaluation of Classification and Scenarios of Character Evolution in Calcareous Sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea). PLoS ONE. 7 (3): e33417.
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: 85-103.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Calcaronea. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131584