Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Homoscleromorpha > Order Homosclerophorida > Family Plakinidae > Genus Plakortis

Plakortis simplex Schulze, 1880

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plakortis*	Schulze, 1880	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Turkish: sunger

Literature

original description	Schulze, F.E. (1880). Untersuchungen über den Bau und die Entwicklung der Spongien. Neunte Mittheilung. Die Plakiniden. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 34(2): 407-451.
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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. Plakortis simplex Schulze, 1880. 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:133938