Synonyms

• Euspongia Bronn, 1859: 22 [unjustified replacement name for Spongia]
  • Type species: Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759, by monotypy.
• Ditela Schmidt, 1862: 24 [synonymized by Schmidt (1964: 24)]
  • Type species: Ditela nitens Schmidt, 1822, by monotypy.
• Australospongia Cook & Bergquist, 2001: 35 [accepted as subgenus]
  • Type species: Spongia (Australospongia) gracilis Cook & Bergquist, 2001, by original designation and monotypy.
• Heterofibria Cook & Bergquist, 2001: 37 [accepted as subgenus]
  • Type species: Spongia (Heterofibria) cristata Cook & Bergquist, 2001, by original designation.

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1759. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus II. Editio decima, reformata. Pp. [I–VI], 825–1384. Impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm]. BHL Reference page. 

• Bronn, H.G. 1859. Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Erster Band. Amorphozoen. C.F. Winter: Leipzig and Heidelberg. XVI + 142 pp., XII pls. BHL Reference page. 

• Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig. i–viii + 1–88 pp., pls. I–VII. Full article (PDF). GoogleBooks Reference page. 

• Cook, S. de C. & Bergquist, P.R. 2001. New species of Spongia (Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida) from New Zealand, and a proposed subgeneric structure. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35(1): 33–58. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2001.9516977 Reference page. 

Additional references

• 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. 

Links

• Spongia in the World Register of Marine Species