Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Hadromerida > Family Polymastiidae

Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rinalda*	Schmidt, 1870	synonym

Children

Polymastia agglutinans Ridley & Dendy, 1886
Polymastia azorica Lévi & Vacelet, 1958
Polymastia bartletti de Laubenfels, 1942
Polymastia boletiformis (Lamarck, 1815)
Polymastia conigera Bowerbank, 1874
Polymastia corticata Ridley & Dendy, 1886
Polymastia ectofibrosa Boury-Esnault, Pansini & Uriz, 1994
Polymastia grimaldii (Topsent, 1913)
Polymastia inflata Cabioch, 1968
Polymastia laganoides Lambe, 1895
Polymastia mamillaris (Müller, 1806)
Polymastia martae Boury-Esnault, Pansini & Uriz, 1994
Polymastia paupera Fristedt, 1887
Polymastia penicillus (Montagu, 1814)
Polymastia polytylota Vacelet, 1969
Polymastia radiosa Bowerbank, 1866
Polymastia sola Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
Polymastia spinula Bowerbank, 1866
Polymastia tissieri (Vacelet, 1961)
Polymastia uberrima (Schmidt, 1870)

Literature

original description	Bowerbank, J.S. 1864a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 1. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-290, pls I-XXXVII.
basis of record	Boury-Esnault, N. 2002. Family Polymastiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 201-219. 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	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.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 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: pp. 85-103

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Polymastia. 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:132046