Full name:

World Porifera Database

Short name:

WoRMS Porifera

Version:

Oct 2008

Release date:

October 22nd, 2008

Authors/editors:

R van Soest (ed)

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Porifera

Number of species names:

8,215 accepted names; 7,542 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

299 accepted names; 742 synonyms

Number of common names:

42

Total number of names:

16,840

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. Data are contributed to the Catalogue of Life via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).

Organization:

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

Web site:

http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera