Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Clionaida > Family Clionaidae > Genus Spiroxya

Spiroxya heteroclita Topsent, 1896

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spiroxya*	Topsent, 1896	accepted genus name
*Scantiletta*	Laubenfels, 1936	synonym

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. (1896). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune des spongiaires de France. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. (9):113-133.
basis of record	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: 85-103.
basis of record	Topsent, E. (1900). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. III.Monaxonida (Hadromerina). Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. (3) 8: 1-331, pls I-VIII.
additional source	Longo, C.; Mastrototaro, F.; Corriero, G. (2005). Sponge fauna associated with a Mediterranean deep-sea coral bank. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 85: 1341-1352.
additional source	Voultsiadou, E.; Vafidis, D. (2004). Rare sponge (Porifera: Demospongiae) species from the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 84 (3): 593-598.
additional source	Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Rützler, K. (2002). Family Alectonidae Rosell, 1996. Pp. 281-290. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. Vie et Milieu. 22(2): 287-349.
additional source	Corriero, G.; Abbiati, M.; Santangelo, G. (1997). Sponges inhabiting a Mediteranean red coral population. Marine Ecology. 18 (2), 147-155.
additional source	Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. Marine Biodiversity. 48(4): 2151-2163.

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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. Spiroxya heteroclita Topsent, 1896. 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:134238