Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Poecilosclerida > Family Microcionidae > Subfamily Ophlitaspongiinae > Genus Artemisina

Artemisina apollinis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Artemisina*	Vosmaer, 1885	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: ornamental horny sponge sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: éponge d'Apollon

Literature

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additional source	Burton, M. (1932). Sponges. Discovery Reports. 6: 237-392, pls 48-57.
additional source	Ríos, P. (2006). Esponjas del Orden Poecilosclerida de las campañas españolas de bentos antártico. Ph.D. Thesis, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela- Spain. 552 pp. [In Spanish].
additional source	Lundbeck, W. (1905). Porifera. (Part II.) Desmacidonidae. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 6(2):1-219.
additional source	Koltun, V.M. (1959 [1971]). [Siliceous horny sponges of the northern and fareastern seas of the U.S.S.R.] [translation in English by Fisheries Research Board of Canada Translation Series No. 1842]. Opredeliteli po faune SSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim muzeem Akademii nauk. 67: 1-365.
additional source	Schejter, L.; Cristobo, J.; Ríos, P. (2024). New records of demosponges (Porifera) from the South Orkney Islands (Antarctica) with a checklist for the region. Zootaxa. 5403(4): 401-430.
additional source	Campos, M.; Mothes, B.; Lerner, C.; Carraro, J.L.; Veitenheimer-Mendes, I.L. (2007). Sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae) from Bransfield Strait, off Joinville Island, collected by Brazilian Antarctic Program - PROANTAR. in: Custódio M.R., Lôbo-Hajdu G., Hajdu E., Muricy G. (eds) Porifera Research. Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability. Livros de Museu Nacional 28, Rio de Janeiro, pp 219-232.
additional source	Desqueyroux, R. (1975). Esponjas (Porifera) de la region antartica chilena. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 16 (1): 47-82.
additional source	Ríos, P.; Cristobo, F.J.; Urgorri, V. (2004). Poecilosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) collected by the Spanish Antarctic expedition BENTART-94. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 45: 97-119.
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N.; Van Beveren, M. (1982). Les Démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. Comité national français des recherches antarctiques. 52: 1-175.
additional source	Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R. (1989). Demospongiae (Porifera) del litoral chileno antartico. Serie Cientifica INACH. 39: 97-158.

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. Artemisina apollinis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). 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:132991