Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Haplosclerida > Suborder Petrosina > Family Petrosiidae > Genus Petrosia

Petrosia (Petrosia) Vosmaer, 1885

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Petrosia*	Vosmaer, 1885	accepted genus name

Subgenus group names

*Schmidtia*	Balsamo Crivelli, 1863	synonym

Children

Petrosia (Petrosia) canariensis de Weerdt & van Soest, 1986
Petrosia (Petrosia) clavata (Esper, 1794)
Petrosia (Petrosia) crassa (Carter, 1876)
Petrosia (Petrosia) ficiformis (Poiret, 1789)
Petrosia (Petrosia) intermedia (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Petrosia (Petrosia) raphida Boury-Esnault, Pansini & Uriz, 1994

Literature

original description	Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1885b. Porifera, Parts Vll-XI. Pp. 177-368, plsXIX-XXV. In: Bronn, H.G. (Ed.), Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs. 1. (Leipzig & Heidelberg).
basis of record	Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. 2002. Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Petrosia (Petrosia) Vosmaer, 1885. 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:166820