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

Oscarella Vosmaer, 1884

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Octavella*	Tuzet & Paris, 1963	synonym

Children

Oscarella balibaloi Pérez, Ivanišević, Dubois, Pedel, Thomas, Tokina & Ereskovsky, 2011
Oscarella imperialis Muricy, Boury-Esnault, Bézac & Vacelet, 1996
Oscarella lobularis (Schmidt, 1862)
Oscarella microlobata Muricy, Boury-Esnault, Bézac & Vacelet, 1996
Oscarella tuberculata (Schmidt, 1868)
Oscarella viridis Muricy, Boury-Esnault, Bézac & Vacelet, 1996

Literature

original description	Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1884). Porifera. In: Bronn, H.G., Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs, Volume II: 65-176, Pl. III, VII-XVIII.
basis of record	Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1887). Klassen und Ordnungen der Spongien (Porifera). Pp. i-xii, 1-496, pls I-XXXIV. In: Bronn, H.G. (Ed.), Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs. 2. (Leipzig & Heidelberg).
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	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.
source of synonymy	Boury-Esnault, N.; Solé-Cava, A.M.; Thorpe, J.P. (1992). Genetic and cytological divergence between colour morphs of the Mediterranean sponge Oscarella lobularis Schmidt (Porifera, Demospongiae, Oscarellidae). Journal of Natural History. 26: 271-284.

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. Oscarella Vosmaer, 1884. 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:131979