Marine sponges belonging to the phylum Porifera (Metazoa), evolutionarily the oldest
animals are the single best source of marine natural products. The present review presents …

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

Assembled here is a reasonably complete list of annotated codes for historical and modern
natural history collections associated with lost and extant specimens of fossil and Recent …

The dichotomy between high microbial abundance (HMA) and low microbial abundance
(LMA) sponges has been long recognized. In the present study, 56 sponge species from …

The World Register of Marine Species is an over 90% complete open-access inventory of all
marine species names. Here we illustrate the scale of the problems with species names …

The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

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

Coral reefs are iconic examples of biological hotspots, highly appreciated because of their
ecosystem services. Yet, they are threatened by human impact and climate change …

There are some fundamental generalizations that can be made about the biology and
ecology of invertebrates associated with coral reefs. For example, it is widely accepted that …

Sponges (phylum Porifera) are a diverse taxon of benthic aquatic animals of great
ecological, commercial, and biopharmaceutical importance. They are arguably the earliest …