Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Verongimorpha > Order Chondrillida > Family Halisarcidae

Halisarca Johnston, 1842

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Halisarca dujardinii Johnston, 1842
Halisarca guttula Schmidt, 1864
Halisarca metschnikovi Lévi, 1953

Literature

original description	Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. (W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh). i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV.
basis of record	Lendenfeld, R. von. (1889). A Monograph of the Horny Sponges. (Trübner and Co.: London). iii-iv, 1-936, pls 1-50.
basis of record	Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002). Family Halisarcidae Schmidt, 1862, pp. 1078-1080.In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.(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).
basis of record	Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002 [2004]). Family Halisarcidae Schmidt, 1862, pp. 1078-1080. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.(2002 [2004]). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY 1708+ XVLIII. BN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
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	Bergquist, P.R. (1980). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida (class Demospongiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 7 (4): 443-503.
additional source	Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 3: 1-217.
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.
additional source	Dujardin, F. (1838). Observations sur les éponges et en particulier sur la Spongille ou Éponge d'eau douce. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. (2) 10: 5-13, pl. 1.

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. Halisarca Johnston, 1842. 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:131822