Poecilosclerida

Acarnus erithacus

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Parazoa
Phylum: Porifera
Classis: Demospongiae
Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha
Ordo: Poecilosclerida
Familiae (22): Acarnidae – Chondropsidae – Cladorhizidae – Coelocarteriidae – Coelosphaeridae – Crambeidae – Crellidae – Dendoricellidae – Desmacididae – Desmoxyidae – Esperiopsidae – Guitarridae – Hymedesmiidae – Iotrochotidae – Isodictyidae – Latrunculiidae – Microcionidae – Mycalidae – Myxillidae – Phellodermidae – Podospongiidae – Tedaniidae

Name

Poecilosclerida Topsent, 1928

Synonymy

• Poecilosclerina Topsent, 1928: 43 [original spelling, as order]
• Poecilosclerida — de Laubenfels, 1955: E21 [emended spelling, as order]
• Microcionina Hajdu, van Soest & Hooper, 1994: 125 [as suborder, disused fide Morrow & Cárdenas (2015: 6,7)]
• Myxillina Hajdu, van Soest & Hooper, 1994: 126 [as suborder, disused fide Morrow & Cárdenas (2015: 6,7)]
• Mycalina Hajdu, van Soest & Hooper, 1994 : 126 [as suborder, disused fide Morrow & Cárdenas (2015: 6,7)]
• Latrunculina Kelly & Samaai, 2002: 707 [as suborder, disused fide Morrow & Cárdenas (2015: 6,7)]

References

Primary references

• Topsent, É. 1928. Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 74: 1–376, pls I–XI. PDF Reference page. 
• Laubenfels, M.W. de 1955. Porifera. Pp. E21–E112. In: Moore, R.C. (Ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part E, Archaeocyatha and Porifera. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press: New York & Lawrence, Kansas. i–xviii + E1–E122 pp.
• Hajdu, E., van Soest, R.W.M. & Hooper, J.N.A. 1994. Proposal for a phylogenetic subordinal classification for poecilosclerid sponges. pp 123–139 In: Van Soest, R.W.M., van Kempen, T.M.G. & Braekman, J.C. (Eds). Sponges in Time and Space. Biology, Chemistry, Paleontology. A.A. Balkema: Rotterdam. xviii + 515 pp. ISBN 90-5410-097-4
• Kelly, M. & Samaai, T. 2002. Suborder Latrunculina subord. nov. incertae sedis. Pp. 707 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, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 
• Morrow, C. & Cárdenas, P. 2015. Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). Frontiers in Zoology 12: 7. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-015-0099-8 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bergquist, P.R. & Fromont, P.J. 1988. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 (Poecilosclerida). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 96: 1−197. PDF Reference page. 
• 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.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 
• Leal, C.V., Salani, S., Moraes, F.C., Moura, R.L., Thompson, F.L. & Hajdu, E. 2023. Lost characters and lost taxonomists: Coelocarteriidae fam. nov., Poecilosclerida with and without chelae, to accommodate supposed phloeodictyids (Haplosclerida). Invertebrate Systematics 37(3): 192–210. DOI: 10.1071/is22017 Reference page.