Porifera

Aplysina aerophoba

Taxonavigation

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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Classes (6): Calcarea - Demospongiae - Hexactinellida - Homoscleromorpha - †Heteractinida - ?†Archaeocyatha - ?Sclerospongiae - Incertae sedis

References

selected references

• Erpenbeck, D.; Wörheide, G. 2007: On the molecular phylogeny of sponges (Porifera). Pp. 107-126 in: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W.A. (eds.) Linnaeus tercentenary: progress in invertebrate taxonomy. Zootaxa, 1668: 1–766. Abstract & excerpt PDF
• Hooper, J.N.A.; Soest, R.W.M., van (eds.) 2002: Systema Porifera. Guide to the supraspecific classification of sponges and spongiomorphs (Porifera). New York: Plenum.
• Hooper, J.N.A.; Soest, R.W.M., van; Pisera, A. 2011: Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011: Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa, 3148: 13–18. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7 (online edition) PDF
• Leys, S.P.; Eerkes-Medrano, D. 2005: Gastrulation in calcareous sponges: in search of Haeckel’s Gastraea. Integrative & comparative biology, 45: 342–351. doi: 10.1093/icb/45.2.342 PDF
• Medina, M.; Collins, A.G.; Silberman, J.D.; Sogin, M.L. 2001: Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA. PNAS, 98: 9707-9712. doi: 10.1073/pnas.171316998 JSTOR PubMed
• Sperling, E.A.; Peterson, K.J.; Pisani, D. 2009: Phylogenetic-signal dissection of nuclear housekeeping genes supports the paraphyly of sponges and the monophyly of Eumetazoa. Molecular biology and evolution, 26: 2261-2274. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msp148

additional references

• Van Soest, R.W.M.; Kaiser, K.L.; Van Syoc, R. 2011: Sponges from Clipperton Island, East Pacific. Zootaxa, 2839: 1–46. Preview PDF

Links

• Lavrov, Dennis. 2009. Porifera. Sponges. Version 30 March 2009 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Porifera/2464/2009.03.30 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
• Paleobiology Database
• WoRMS (2011). Porifera. 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. (2011) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558 on 2011-10-30

Vernacular names

Alemannisch: Schwimm
Català: Esponges, Porífers
Česky: Houbovci
Corsu: spunghe
Српски / Srpski: Sunđeri
Dansk: Svampedyr
Deutsch: Schwämme
Ελληνικά: Ποροφόρα, Σπόγγοι, Σφουγγάρια
English: sponges
Español: Esponjas, Poríferos
Esperanto: Spongulo
Euskara: Belaki
Français: Éponges, Spongiaires, Porifères
Galego: Esponxas, poríferos
Հայերեն: Սպունգներ
Hrvatski: Spužve
Italiano: Spugne
Lietuvių: Pintis
Magyar: Szivacsok
Македонски: Сунѓери
Nederlands: Sponsdieren
日本語: 海綿動物門
Nordfriisk: Swaampen
‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: Svampdyr
Polski: Gąbki
Português: Poríferos, espongiários.
Русский: Губки
Sámegiella: Svampdjur
Slovenčina: Hubky
Slovenščina: Spužve
Suomi: Sienieläimet
Svenska: Svampdjur
ไทย: ฟองน้ำ
Türkçe: Süngerler
Українська: Губки
中文: 多孔動物門

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