Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Mycalina

Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Amphilectus Vosmaer, 1880
Esperiopsis Carter, 1882
Semisuberites Carter, 1877
Ulosa de Laubenfels, 1936

Literature

original description	Hentschel, E. 1923. Erste Unterabteilung der Metazoa: Parazoa, Porifera-Schwämme. Pp. 307-418, fig. 288-377. In: Kükenthal, W. &Krumbach, T. (Eds), Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichteder Stämme des Tierreiches. Vol. 1, Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata,Mesozoa. (Walter de Gruyter und Co: Berlin and Leipzi
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. Pp. 656-664. 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).
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; De Voogd, N.J. 2012. Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 18: 1-21.

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923. 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:168337