Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Keratosa > Order Dictyoceratida > Family Thorectidae > Subfamily Thorectinae > Genus Hyrtios

Hyrtios erectus (Keller, 1889)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Heteronema Dujardin, 1841

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hyrtios*	Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864	accepted genus name
*Dysideopsis*	Lendenfeld, 1888	synonym
*Heteronema*	Keller, 1889	synonym
*Oligoceras*	Schulze, 1880	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Erpenbeck, D.; Aryasari, R.; Benning, S.; Debitus, C.; Kaltenbacher, E.; Al-Aidaroos, A.M.; Schupp, P.; Hall, K.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Voigt, O.; De Voogd, N.J.; Wörheide, G. (2017). Diversity of two widespread Indo-Pacific demosponge species revisited. Marine Biodiversity. 47 (4): 1035–1043.
additional source	Lim, S.C.; de Voogd, N.J.; Tan, K.S. (2008). A guide to sponges of Singapore. Science Centre Singapore, pp. 1-173.
additional source	George, A.M.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Sluka, R.D.; Lazarus, S. (2020). A checklist of marine sponges (Porifera) of peninsula India. Zootaxa. 4885(2): 277-300.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (1990). Shallow water reef sponges of eastern Indonesia. In: Rützler K (ed) New Perspectives in Sponge Biology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC. p. 302-307.
additional source	Hooper, J.N.A. (2008). Sponges. Pp 170-186. In: P. Hutchings, M.J. Kingsford & I.O. Hoegh-Guldberg (eds). The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and management. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
additional source	Sorokin, S.J.; Fromont, J.; Currie, D. (2007). Demosponge biodiversity in the Benthic Protection Zone of the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 132 (2): 192-204.
additional source	Setiawan, E.; Muzaki, F.K.; Nurhayati, A.P.D.; Maulidina, N. (2019). Record of shallow-water sponges in Simeulue Island, Aceh Province, Indonesia. Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity. 20(11): 3246-3257.
additional source	Pereira, P.; Raghunathan, C. (2023). Descriptions of poorly known marine sponges (Phylum Porifera) from the Andaman Islands India with notes on their ecology. Records of the Zological Survey of India, Special Volume. 123 (iS2): 279-306.

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. Hyrtios erectus (Keller, 1889). 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:165350