John Norman Ashby Hooper

John Norman Ashby Hooper, Australian spongiologist.

Head, Biodiversity & Geosciences Programs, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Hooper, J.N.A. & Bergquist, P.R. 1992. Cymbastela, a new genus of lamellate coral reef sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(1): 99−137. BHL Reference page.

Mitchell, K.D., Hall, K.A. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2011. A new species of Sigmaxinella Dendy, 1897 (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Desmacellidae) from the Tasman Sea. Zootaxa 2901(1): 19–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2901.1.2 Reference page.

Galindo, H., Hooper, J.N.A. & Pinheiro, U. 2014. Clathria (Thalysias) (Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae: Porifera) from Brazil: New species and redescription of Clathria (Thalysias) basiarenacea (Boury-Esnault, 1973). Zootaxa 3878(6): 580–592. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3878.6.5 Reference page.
Hall, K.A., Ekins, M.G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2014. Two new desma-less species of Theonella Gray, 1868 (Demospongiae: Astrophorida: Theonellidae), from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and a re-evaluation of one species assigned previously to Dercitus Gray, 1867. Zootaxa 3814(4): 451–477. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.1 Reference page.

Van Syoc, R.J., van Soest, R.W.M., Xavier, J.R. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2015. A phylogenetic overview of sponge-inhabiting barnacles and their host specificity (Crustacea, Cirripedia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser. 4, 62(11): 331–357. PDF Reference page.

Ekins, M.G., Erpenbeck, D., Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2016. A new species of lithistid sponge hiding within the Isabella mirabilis species complex (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida) from seamounts of the Norfolk Ridge. Zootaxa 4136(3): 433–460. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.2 Reference page.
Setiawan, E., de Voogd, N.J., Hooper, J.N.A., Wörheide, G. & Erpenbeck, D. 2016. Bottomless barrel-sponge species in the Indo-Pacific? Zootaxa 4136(2): 393–396. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.11 Reference page.

Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest, R.W.M. & Pisera, A. 2011. Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. Pp 13–18 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Dohrmann, M., Kelley, C., Kelly, M., Pisera, A., Hooper, J.N.A. & Reiswig, H.M. 2017. An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Frontiers in Zoology 14: 18. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-017-0191-3 Reference page.

Ekins, M.G., Debitus, C., Erpenbeck, D. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2018. A new species of the sponge Raspailia (Raspaxilla) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 4410(2): 379–386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.7 Reference page.

Van Soest, R.W.M., Hooper, J.N.A. & Butler, P.J. 2020. Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms. Zootaxa 4745(1): 1–93. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1 Reference page.
Ekins, M.G., Erpenbeck, D. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2020. Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition. Zootaxa 4774(1): 1–159. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4774.1.1 Reference page.

Ekins, M. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2023. New carnivorous sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia collected by ROV from the RV FALKOR. Zootaxa 5293(3): 435–471. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2 Reference page.