Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Hadromerida > Family Placospongiidae > Genus Placospongia

Placospongia decorticans (Hanitsch, 1895)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Placospongia*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name
*Physcaphora*	Hanitsch, 1895	synonym

Species group names

*Physcaphora decorticans*	Hanitsch, 1895	basionym
*Physcaphora decorticans*	Hanitsch, 1895	synonym

Literature

original description	Hanitsch, R. 1895. Notes on a Collection of Sponges from the West Coast of Portugal. Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society 9:205-219, pls xii-xiii.
additional source	Lévi, C. 1956b. Spongiaires de la région de Dakar. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A, Sciences naturelles) 18(2): 391-405.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219.
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
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Placospongia decorticans (Hanitsch, 1895). 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:134189