Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Porifera - (Class) Demospongiae - (Order) Spongillida

Current position

Spongillida (Order) Cárdenas, Pérez & Boury-Esnault, 2012

Ref: R.W.M. van Soest et al.: [19 Feb 2015]. [inferred]

Alternative positions

Democlavia ([unranked]) Sperling et al., 2009	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: table 2 (p. 439).
Haplosclerida (Order) Topsent, 1928	Ref: R.M. Finks & J.K. Rigby, 2004a: 53.
Phthinorhabdina (Suborder)	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1975 (1971): 590.
Spongillina (Suborder) Manconi & Pronzato, 2002	Ref: J.N.A. Hooper et al., 2011: 15.

Historical positions

Democlavia ([unranked]) Sperling et al., 2009	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: table 2 (p. 439).
Spongillina (Suborder) Manconi & Pronzato, 2002	Ref: J.N.A. Hooper et al., 2011: 15.
Haplosclerida (Order) Topsent, 1928	Ref: R.M. Finks & J.K. Rigby, 2004a: 53; 2, table 1 (p. 793).
Ceractinomorpha (Subclass) Lévi, 1953	Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990
Haplosclerida (Order) Topsent, 1928	Ref: W.D. Hartman, 1982: 651.
Phthinorhabdina (Suborder)	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1975 (1971): 590.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	22g;10s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 19 Feb 2015	[22g]
	R.W.M. van Soest et al.: [19 Feb 2015]	[22g]
2011	J.N.A. Hooper et al.: 15	24g;173s
2004a	J.K. Rigby: 2	†10g