Microscleroderma

Familia: Scleritodermidae
Genus:
Species (10): M. chonelleides – M. herdmani – M. hirsutum – M. lamina – M. lava – M. mexica – M. miritatarata – M. novaezelandiae – M. spirophora – M. stoneae

Microscleroderma Kirkpatrick, 1903: 173

• Type species: Microscleroderma hirsutum Kirkpatrick, 1903, by monotypy.

• Taprobane Dendy, 1905: 102
  • Type locality: Taprobane herdmani Dendy, 1905, by monotypy.

• Kirkpatrick, R. 1903. Descriptions of South African Sponges. Part II. Marine Investigations in South Africa 2(14): 171–180, pl. IV.
• Dendy, A. 1905. Report on the sponges collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar 3(Supplement 18): 57–246, pls I–XVI. BHL Reference page. 

• Kelly, M. 2007. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera: lithistid Demospongiae (rock sponges). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 121: 1–100. ISBN 978-0-478-23277-6 Reference page. 
• Gómez, P., Calderón-Gutiérrez, F., González-Gándara, C. & Rojas-Terán, M.D.L.A. 2021. New species of Microscleroderma and Amphibleptula (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida, Scleritodermidae) from two contrasting marine environments. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 101(2): 241–251. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315421000114 Reference page. 
• Schuster, A., Pisera, A., Ekins, M. & Debitus, C. 2021. New genus and species of lithistid demosponges from submarine caves in Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands) and Tahiti Iti (Society Islands), French Polynesia. The European Zoological Journal 88(1): 749–770. DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2021.1939450 Reference page. 

• Microscleroderma in the World Register of Marine Species