taxonID	type	description	language	source
038187EEB907FFDF20D6F9BBFE9D02AA.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis (emended) Massive, pedunculate or cup-shaped Hadromerida, frequently with membranous raised oscules, texture corky or waxy to the touch, typically displaying a range of coloration from cream to yellow, bright orange or red, frequently also green and blue. Megascleres are tylostyles and subtylostyles in two to three size categories, strongyloxea in one to two size categories, and occasionally oxea which may be centrotylote. Microscleres are absent. Megasclere architecture usually semi-radial with loosely structured anastomosing loose tracts of megascleres, almost always radial at the sponge surface where the ectosome is raised in vertical to fanning brushes of small megascleres, or strictly radiating from the base of the sponge. Reproduction is oviparous, some species gemmulate, one genus forms an association with hermit crabs.	en	McCormack, Grace P., Kelly, Michelle (2002): New indications of the phylogenetic a nity of Spongosorites suberitoides Diaz et al., 1993 (Porifera, Demospongiae) as revealed by 28 S ribosomal DNA. Journal of Natural History 36 (9): 1009-1021, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110040394, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110040394
038187EEB900FFDF20CAFE7DFDC9064E.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Massive amorphous, globular, irregularly spherical Suberitidae; surface mammillate, anged dorsally, smooth, waxy, corky to the touch, with papillate or raised membranous oscules; texture barely compressible; colour in life greyish green, tan to bright orange; megascleres oxeas in two size classes, slightly curved, occasionally centrotylote; skeleton consists of broad irregular swaths of oxeas, irregularly anastomosing, diverging towards ectosome which is compressed. The ectosomal spiculation is erect to slightly fanned tufts of oxeas. One species occurs in association with a hermit crab and its gastropod shell home. Reproduction by gemmulation. Holotype	en	McCormack, Grace P., Kelly, Michelle (2002): New indications of the phylogenetic a nity of Spongosorites suberitoides Diaz et al., 1993 (Porifera, Demospongiae) as revealed by 28 S ribosomal DNA. Journal of Natural History 36 (9): 1009-1021, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110040394, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110040394
038187EEB900FFDF20CAFE7DFDC9064E.taxon	etymology	Etymology The genus name re ects the taxonomic history of the sponge, and the di culty we have had in the assessment of the phylogenetic a nity of the sponge. Remarks We consider that Pseudospongosorite s suberitoides (Diaz et al.) has a greater a nity to suberitid sponges in the Hadromerida than to representatives of the Halichondrida, but that it should remain incertae sedis in the Suberitidae until the phylogeny of Halichondrida with respect to the Hadromerida is fully resolved. Finally, we urge caution in proposing changes to the taxonomic classi cation of the Halichondrida with respect to the Hadromerida (see Chombard and Boury-Esnault, 1999). Considerably more sequence data from 28 S rRNA and possibly 18 S rRNA genes is required, from a greater range of representative taxa, before a nal picture of the groups as a whole emerge.	en	McCormack, Grace P., Kelly, Michelle (2002): New indications of the phylogenetic a nity of Spongosorites suberitoides Diaz et al., 1993 (Porifera, Demospongiae) as revealed by 28 S ribosomal DNA. Journal of Natural History 36 (9): 1009-1021, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110040394, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110040394
