Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Homoscleromorpha > Order Homosclerophorida

Plakinidae Schulze, 1880

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Corticiidae*	Vosmaer, 1887	synonym
*Placinidae*		synonym

Children

Corticium Schmidt, 1862
Placinolopha Topsent, 1897
Plakina Schulze, 1880
Plakinastrella Schulze, 1880
Plakortis Schulze, 1880

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: プラキナ科

Literature

original description	Schulze, F.E. (1880). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Neunte Mittheilung. Die Plakiniden. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 34(2): 407-451.
additional source	Gazave, E.; Lapébie, P.; Renard, E.; Vacelet, J.; Rocher, C.; Ereskovsky, A.V.; Lavrov, D.V.; Borchiellini, C. (2010). Molecular Phylogeny Restores the Supra-Generic Subdivision of Homoscleromorph Sponges (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha). PLoS ONE. 5(12), 14290.
additional source	Ereskovsky, A.V.; Ivanišević, J.; Pérez, T,. (2009). Overview of the Homoscleromorpha sponges diversity in the Mediterranean. inProceedings of the 1st Symposium on the Coralligenous and other calcareous bio-concretions of the Mediterranean Sea (Tabarka, 15-16 January 2009) CAR/ASP89-95.
additional source	Muricy, G.; Diaz, M.C. (2002). Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905. Family Plakinidae Schulze, 1880. pp. 71-82. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges(2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY,1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
additional source	Muricy, G.; Diaz, M.C. (2002 [2004]). Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905. Family Plakinidae Schulze, 1880. Pp. 71-82. 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 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
status source	Boury-Esnault, N.; Lavrov, D.V.; Ruiz, C.A.; Pérez, T. (2013). The Integrative Taxonomic Approach Applied to Porifera: A Case Study of the Homoscleromorpha. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53(3): 416-427.

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. Plakinidae Schulze, 1880. 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:131661