Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Spongionella repens
Esponja, Sponge
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Class
Demospongiae
Order
Dendroceratida
Family
Dictyodendrillidae
Genus
Spongionella
Species
repens
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Euryspongia repens (Thiele, 1905), Spongelia repens Thiele, 1905 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Distribution: Isabela Island of Galapagos Islands and Juan-Fernandez Archipelago (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, Spongionella repens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16356. Accessed 31 October 2026.