Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Plakina microlobata
Esponja, Sponge
Thinly encrusting on rock.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Class
Homoscleromorpha
Order
Homosclerophorida
Family
Plakinidae
Genus
Plakina
Species
microlobata
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: USNM 40632 SEPBOP, slides and fragments MHNG 18980, Jame (Santiago) Island; Paratype: ZMA.POR 11207, SEPBOP Albemarle (Islabela) Islands (Desqeyroux-Faundez & Van Soest, 1997)
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Santiago and Isabela Islands (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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Plakina microlobata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16312. Accessed 1 November 2026.