Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Clionaida > Family Clionaidae

Spiroxya Topsent, 1896

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Scantiletta*	Laubenfels, 1936	synonym

Children

Spiroxya abyssorum (Carter, 1874)
Spiroxya corallophila (Calcinai, Cerrano & Bavestrello, 2002)
Spiroxya heteroclita Topsent, 1896
Spiroxya levispira (Topsent, 1898)
Spiroxya pruvoti (Topsent, 1900)
Spiroxya sarai (Melone, 1965)

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. (1896). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. (9):113-133.
basis of record	Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Rützler, K. (2002). Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed 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.

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. Spiroxya Topsent, 1896. 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:132061