Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Spongosorites smithae
Esponja, Sponge
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Class
Demospongiae
Order
Suberitida
Family
Halichondriidae
Genus
Spongosorites
Species
smithae
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: USNM 39721, Type locality: off Seymour Island (Desqeyroux-Faundez & Van Soest, 1997)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Seymour, Santiago of Galapagos 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, Spongosorites smithae", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16342. Accessed 31 October 2026.