Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Plakina fragilis
Esponja, Sponge
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Class
Homoscleromorpha
Order
Homosclerophorida
Family
Plakinidae
Genus
Plakina
Species
fragilis
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: USNM 43168, slides and fragments ZMA POR 11190, MHNG 21531; Locality type: James Islands-Galapagos (Desqeyroux-Faundez & Van Soest, 1997)
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Santiago (Desqeyroux-Faundez & Van Soest, 1997)
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Desqeyroux-Faundez, R., Van Soest, R.W.M. (1997) Shallow-water Demosponges of the Galapagos Islands. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 104(2): 379-467.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.
This page should be cited as follows:
"Galapagos Species Database, Plakina fragilis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16308. Accessed 31 October 2026.