Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Hadromerida > Family Polymastiidae > Genus Sphaerotylus

Sphaerotylus borealis (Swartschewsky, 1906)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sphaerotylus*	Topsent, 1898	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Swartschewsky, B. 1906. Materialui dlya faunui ghubok Belago Morya i otchasti Murmanskogo poberjya (Monaxonida). (Beiträge zur Spongien-Fauna des Weissen Meeres). Zapiski Kïevskago obshchestva estestvoispÿtatelei (Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiew) 20(2): 307-355 [in Russian];German summary 356-371, pls 10-16.
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

Genbank

Taxonomy

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External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Sphaerotylus borealis (Swartschewsky, 1906). 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:134221