Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Myxillina > Family Hymedesmiidae

Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anchinoe*	Gray, 1867	synonym
*Plumohalichondria*	Carter, 1876	synonym
*Pronax*	Gray, 1867	synonym
*Pronaxella*	Burton, 1931	synonym
*Stylostichon*	Topsent, 1892	synonym
*Suberotelites*	Schmidt, 1868	synonym

Children

Phorbas amaranthus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Phorbas baffini (Brøndsted, 1933)
Phorbas bergmontae Hajdu & Teixeira, 2011
Phorbas bihamiger (Waller, 1878)
Phorbas demonstrans (Topsent, 1890)
Phorbas dendyi (Topsent, 1890)
Phorbas dives (Topsent, 1891)
Phorbas equiosculatus (Pansini, 1987)
Phorbas fibulatus (Topsent, 1893)
Phorbas fictitius (Bowerbank, 1866)
Phorbas kovdaicum (Rezvoj, 1925)
Phorbas lieberkuehni (Burton, 1930)
Phorbas mercator (Schmidt, 1868)
Phorbas microchelifer (Cabioch, 1968)
Phorbas osculosus (Topsent, 1892)
Phorbas papillosa (Arnesen, 1903)
Phorbas perarmatus (Bowerbank, 1866)
Phorbas plumosus (Montagu, 1814)
Phorbas posidoni Voultsiadou-Koukoura & van Soest, 1991
Phorbas punctatus Picton & Goodwin, 2007
Phorbas repens (Topsent, 1904)
Phorbas roemeri (Hentschel, 1929)
Phorbas tailliezi Vacelet & Perez, 2008
Phorbas tenacior (Topsent, 1925)
Phorbas topsenti Vacelet & Perez, 2008

Literature

original description	Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
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	Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 41: 47-114

Genbank

External Links

GenBank
Sponge Barcoding Database (Phorbas sp. 713)
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. 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:131953