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

Hymeniacidon Bowerbank, 1858

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Laxosuberites*	Topsent, 1896	synonym
*Rhaphidostyla*	Burton, 1935	synonym
*Stylinos*	Topsent, 1891	synonym
*Stylotella*	Lendenfeld, 1888	synonym

Children

Hymeniacidon assimilis (Levinsen, 1887)
Hymeniacidon fallax Bowerbank, 1866
Hymeniacidon fasciculata (Fristedt, 1887)
Hymeniacidon fristedti (Topsent, 1913)
Hymeniacidon heliophila (Wilson, 1911)
Hymeniacidon iberica (Ferrer Hernández, 1923)
Hymeniacidon informis (Burton, 1930)
Hymeniacidon kitchingi (Burton, 1935)
Hymeniacidon luxurians (Lieberkühn, 1859)
Hymeniacidon mixta (Sarà, 1958)
Hymeniacidon perlevis (Montagu, 1814)
Hymeniacidon plumigera Bowerbank, 1874
Hymeniacidon rugosa (Schmidt, 1868)
Hymeniacidon simplex (Bowerbank, 1866)
Hymeniacidon simplicima (Bowerbank, 1874)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ウスカワカイメン属

Literature

original description	Bowerbank, J.S. (1858). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI.
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	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.
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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

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. Hymeniacidon Bowerbank, 1858. 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:131808