Carteriospongia

Carteriospongia
Carteriospongia cf. foliascens at Baa Atoll in the Maldives
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Dictyoceratida
Family:	Thorectidae
Subfamily:	Phyllospongiinae
Genus:	Carteriospongia Hyatt, 1877 [1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
List Carterispongia [lapsus] Carterospongia [lapsus] Hircinia (Polyfibrospongia) Bowerbank, 1877 Phyllospongia (Carteriospongia) Hyatt, 1877 PolyfibrospongiaBowerbank, 1877

Carteriospongia is a genus of sea sponges in the family Thorectidae.

There is some debate around the taxonomy of the group, with a 2021 molecular and morphological assessment of the subfamily Phyllospongiinae suggesting that Carteriospongia should become a synonym of Phyllospongia, and reinstating Carteriospongia flabellifera to its original designation of Polyfibrospongia flabellifera. ^[2] The same study described 2 new species, designated Phyllospongia bergquistaesp. nov. and Polyfibrospongia kulitsp. nov.. ^[2]

Species

• Carteriospongia contorta Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988
• Carteriospongia delicata Pulitzer-Finali, 1982
• Carteriospongia fissurella (de Laubenfels, 1948)
• Carteriospongia foliascens (Pallas, 1766)
• Carteriospongia mystica Hyatt, 1877
• Carteriospongia pennatula (Lamarck, 1813)
• Carteriospongia perforata Hyatt, 1877
• Carteriospongia silicata (Lendenfeld, 1889)
• Carteriospongia vermicularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)

References

1. Revision of the North American Poriferæ: With Remarks Upon the Foreign Species. A Hyatt - 1877
2. Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab; Nerida G. Wilson; Diana Prada; Oliver Gomez; Jane Fromont (2021). "Molecular and morphological assessment of tropical sponges in the subfamily Phyllospongiinae, with the descriptions of two new species" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (1): 319–335. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa133.