Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Tetractinellida > Suborder Astrophorina > Family Geodiidae > Subfamily Geodiinae > Genus Geodia

Geodia hentscheli Cárdenas, Rapp, Schander & Tendal, 2010

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sidonops Sollas, 1889

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Geodia*	Lamarck, 1815	accepted genus name
*Cydonium*	Fleming, 1828	synonym
*Geodia (Stellogeodia)*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym
*Isops*	Sollas, 1880	synonym
*Sidonops*	Sollas, 1889	synonym
*Synops*	Vosmaer, 1882	synonym

Species group names

*Geodia mesotriaena*	(Hentschel, 1929)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Hentschel's 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 de Hentschel

Literature

original description	Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T.; Schander, C.; Tendal, O.S. (2010). Molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the Geodiidae (Porifera,Demospongiae, Astrophorida) - combining phylogenetic and Linnaean classification. Zoologica Scripta. 39 (1): 89-106.
additional source	Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2015). Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95(7), 1475-1516.
additional source	Morganti, T. M.; Slaby, B. M.; De Kluijver, A.; Busch, K.; Hentschel, U.; Middelburg, J. J.; Grotheer, H.; Mollenhauer, G.; Dannheim, J.; Rapp, H. T.; Purser, A.; Boetius, A. (2022). Giant sponge grounds of Central Arctic seamounts are associated with extinct seep life. Nature Communications. 13(1).
redescription	Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T.: Klitgaard, A.B.; Best, M.; Thollesson, M.; Tendal, O.S. (2013). Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169, 251-311.

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. Geodia hentscheli Cárdenas, Rapp, Schander & Tendal, 2010. 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:449128