Online resources

Sponguide: Queensland Museum guide to sponge collection and identification (156 KB)

Pests and Diseases database (PaDIL)

• Queensland Museum collection of sponge specimens as point data for GIS mapping projects related to potential introduced pests

World Porifera Database

• Some keys to families and genera
• World species checklist with some literature included

ABRS Australian Faunal Directory

• Checklist of the published Australian sponge fauna, including all Queensland species
• Keys to genera
• Introductions to family level definitions, and history of sponge taxonomy in Australia.

Sponge Barcoding Database

• Sponge genetic sequence data, together with some morphological information for each species
• Includes many Queensland species

Porifera Tree of Life Project (PorTOL)

• • Training announcements and forum on sponge taxonomy and molecular data
• • Molecular database

Sponges of Britain & Ireland

• Most useful terminology for sponge morphological characters

Outside Australia

Online pictorial guides to assist identification of some international sponge faunas:

• Britain & Ireland
• Cold temperate Northeast Pacific
• Northeast Atlantic
• Caribbean
• Singapore Shores

General introductions to Porifera online

• Porifera (UCMP Berkeley)
• Phylum Porifera (University of Michigan)
• Porifera
• Porifera: Tree of Life Web project

Textbooks

• Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (J.N.A. Hooper & R.W.M. Van Soest Eds.)
• Sponges (Porifera). Progress in molecular and submolecular biology (W.E. Müller Ed.)

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