Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha

Haplosclerida Topsent, 1928

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

*Haplosclerina*	Topsent, 1928	synonym
*Petrosina*	Boury-Esnault & van Beveren, 1982	synonym

Children

Callyspongiidae Laubenfels, 1936
Chalinidae Gray, 1867
Niphatidae van Soest, 1980
Petrosiidae van Soest, 1980
Phloeodictyidae Carter, 1882

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: 単骨海綿目

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco. 74:1-376, pls I-XI.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Order Haplosclerida Topsent, 1928. Pp. 831-832. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). Frontiers in Zoology. 12: 7.
basis of record	Redmond, N.E.; Raleigh, J.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Kelly, M.; Travers, S.A.A.; Bradshaw, B.; Vartia, S.; Stephens, K.M.; McCormack, G.P. (2011). Phylogenetic Relationships of the Marine Haplosclerida (Phylum Porifera) Employing Ribosomal (28S rRNA) and Mitochondrial (cox1, nad1) Gene Sequence Data. PLoS ONE. 6(9): e24344.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002 [2004]). Order Haplosclerida Topsent, 1928. Pp. 831-832. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	de Weerdt, W.H. (1985). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 1. Introduction, Oceanapiidae and Petrosiidae. Beaufortia. 35(5): 61-91.
additional source	Tribalat, M.-A.; Marra, M.; McCormack, G.; Thomas, O.P. (2016). Does the Chemical Diversity of the Order Haplosclerida (Phylum Porifera: Class Demospongia) Fit with Current Taxonomic Classification?. Planta Medica. 2016: 1-14.
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: 85-103.
additional source	McCormack, G. P.; Erpenbeck, D.; Van Soest, R. W. M. (2002). Major discrepancy between phylogenetic hypotheses based on molecular and morphological criteria within the Order Haplosclerida (Phylum Porifera: Class Demospongiae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 40(4): 237-240.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Fusetani, N.; Andersen, R.J. (1998). Straight-Chain Acetylenes as Chemotaxonomic Markers of the Marine Haplosclerida. Pp. 3-30. In: Watanabe, Y. & Fusetani, N. (Eds), Sponge Sciences: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. (Springer-Verlag: Tokyo, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York): 1-458.
additional source	Griessinger, J. M. (1971). Etude des Réniérides de Méditerranée (Démosponges Haplosclérides). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Zoologie). 3(3): 97-182.

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. Haplosclerida. 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:131598

Dr. Ole Tendal. Haplosclerida Topsent, 1928. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/07246eae-826d-4359-a41e-dafade47cf88