Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Haplosclerida > Suborder Petrosina > Family Petrosiidae

Xestospongia de Laubenfels, 1932

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xestospongia friabilis (Topsent, 1892)
Xestospongia plana (Topsent, 1892)
Xestospongia variabilis (Topsent, 1892)

Literature

original description	Laubenfels, M.W. De 1932b. The marine and fresh-water sponges of California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 81(2927):1-140.
basis of record	Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. 2002. Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).
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: pp. 85-103
additional source	Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 23-46.

Genbank

External Links

GenBank
Sponge Barcoding Database (Xestospongia sp. 158)
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Xestospongia de Laubenfels, 1932. In: 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.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131849