Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Porifera
Class Demospongiae
Order Hadromerida
Family Suberitidae
Genus Homaxinella
Species Homaxinella subdola

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Homaxinella subdola (Bowerbank, 1866)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Halichondria subdola n.sp. Bowerbank, 1866: 247; Bowerbank, 1874: 106, pl. XLIII figs. 14-16.
Pachaxinella subdola: Burton, 1930b: 504, figs. 8-9;
Homaxinella subdola: Burton, 1957: 31; Hiscock et al., 1983(84): 23; Ackers et al., 1985: 96, figs. 67-68, 118; 1992: 84, figs. 118, 191
Axinella subdola: van Soest et al. 1999 (CD-ROM)

Ackers, R.G.A., D. Moss and B.E. Picton, 1992. Sponges of the British Isles ("Sponge V"), a colour guide and working document. Marine Conservation Society, 175 pp.

Bowerbank, J.S., 1866. A monograph of the British Spongiadae, II. Ray Society, London: i-xx, 1-388.

Bowerbank, J.S., 1874. A monograph of the British Spongiadae, III. Ray Society, London: i-xvii, 1-367, pls. I-XCII.

Burton, M., 1930b. Additions to the sponge fauna at Plymouth. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. Plymouth, 16: 489-507.

Burton, M., 1957. Plymouth Marine Fauna. 3rd ed. Porifera. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K.: 26-36.

Hiscock, K., S.M.K. Stone and J.D. George, 1983 (1984). The marine fauna of Lundy. Porifera (Sponges). Rep. Lundy Fld. Soc., 34: 16-35.

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