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

Poecilosclerida Topsent, 1928

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

*Latrunculina*	Kelly & Samaai, 2002	synonym
*Microcionina*	Hajdu, van Soest & Hooper, 1994	synonym
*Mycalina*	Hajdu, van Soest & Hooper, 1994	synonym
*Myxillina*	Hajdu, van Soest & Hooper, 1994	synonym

Children

Acarnidae Dendy, 1922
Chondropsidae Carter, 1886
Cladorhizidae Dendy, 1922
Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922
Crambeidae Lévi, 1963
Crellidae Dendy, 1922
Dendoricellidae Hentschel, 1923
Desmacididae Schmidt, 1870
Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1917
Esperiopsidae Hentschel, 1923
Guitarridae Dendy, 1924
Hymedesmiidae Topsent, 1928
Iotrochotidae Dendy, 1922
Isodictyidae Dendy, 1924
Latrunculiidae Topsent, 1922
Microcionidae Carter, 1875
Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905
Myxillidae Dendy, 1922
Phellodermidae van Soest & Hajdu, 2002
Podospongiidae Laubenfels, 1936
Tedaniidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: 多骨海綿目

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	Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). Frontiers in Zoology. 12: 7.
taxonomy source	Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Order Poecilosclerida Topsent, 1928. Pp. 403-408. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) (2002) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 Volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
taxonomy source	Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Order Poecilosclerida Topsent, 1928. Pp. 403-408. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) (2002) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. (2 Volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).