Full name:

World Porifera Database

Short name:

Porifera

Version:

1.1, July 2007

Release date:

July 24th, 2007

Authors/editors:

R van Soest (ed)

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Porifera

Number of species names:

8,052 accepted names; 7,135 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

316 accepted names; 686 synonyms

Number of common names:

26

Total number of names:

16,215

Abstract:

The World Porifera database is a searchable catalogue of recent sponge species and higher taxon names. The catalogue is intended to promote stability and act as a tool for higher taxon revisions, regional monographs, and eventually as a catalogue of the world's sponge specimen databases as these are slowly being accumulated through EurOBIS and GBIF.

Organization:

Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Web site:

http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/porifera