Podospongia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poecilosclerida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Poecilosclerida

Familia: Podospongiidae
Genus: Podospongia
Species (7): P. capensis – P. colini – P. india – P. lovenii – P. natalensis – P. similis – P. virga

Name

Podospongia Bocage, 1869: 159

• Type species: Podospongia lovenii Bocage, 1869, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Bocage, J.V.B. 1869. Eponges siliceuses nouvelles du Portugal et de l’île Saint-Iago (Archipel de Cap-Vert). Jornal de Sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes 2: 159–162, pls X–XI. BHL

Additional references

• Samaai, T. 2026. A century later: discovery of a second Podospongia species offshore from the Table Mountain National Park MPA, South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 106: e17. DOI: 10.1017/s0025315426101118 Reference page.