Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Dendroceratida > Family Dictyodendrillidae > Genus Spongionella

Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spongionella*	Bowerbank, 1862	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Aplysina zetlandica*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	basionym
*Aplysinopsis schmidti*	(Marenzeller, 1877)	basionym
*Spongia pulchella*	Sowerby, 1804	basionym
*Verongia zetlandica*	Bowerbank, 1866	basionym
*Aplysina zetlandica*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	synonym
*Aplysinopsis schmidti*	(Marenzeller, 1877)	synonym
*Spongia pulchella*	Sowerby, 1804	synonym
*Spongionella zetlandica*	(Bowerbank, 1866)	synonym
*Verongia zetlandica*	Bowerbank, 1866	synonym

Literature

original description	Sowerby, J. (1806) The British Miscellany: or coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects; many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles; and chiefly in the possession of the author. London.
additional source	Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 pp.
additional source	Pansini, M. 1987a. Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. Pp. 149-185. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332.
additional source	Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. 1981 [1980]. The Keratosa in a collection of Mediterranean sponges mainly from the Italian coasts. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria 83: 127-158.
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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External Links

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Spongionella pulchella (Sowerby, 1804). 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:132335