Data consist of a species name considered valid or status unknown, followed by author and
year of erection. Obvious synonyms (based on general consensus of past authors) are …

This new dataset presents occurrence data for Porifera collected in the Ross Sea, mainly in
the Terra Nova Bay area, and curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA …

Although sponges are one of the major components of littoral ecosystems, their systematics
obviously lags behind that of the majority of other groups of marine invertebrates. Also the …

Background The checklist of Porifera of Greece was created in the framework of the Greek
Taxon Information System (GTIS), an initiative of the LifeWatchGreece Research …

With the completion of a single unified classification, the Systema Porifera (SP) and
subsequent development of an online species database, the World Porifera Database …

2. Living species: The classification of Phylum Porifera follows the revision published in the
Systema Porifera (Hooper & Van Soest, 2002), with recent additions and emendments …

We tested different molecular markers for their utility as species discriminators in Porifera:
internal transcribed spacer-1 and-2 (ITS-1, ITS-2) rDNA, mitochondrial 12S, 16S, and …

The peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa has accelerated the rate of sponge (Porifera) species
discoveries in 289 peer-reviewed papers published between 2002 up until the end of 2020 …

Systematics is nowadays facing new challenges with the introduction of new concepts and
new techniques. Compared to most other phyla, phylogenetic relationships among sponges …