Placospongia

Familia: Placospongiidae
Genus:
Species (15): P. amphinolastra – P. anthosigma – P. beatrizae – P. caribica – P. carinata – P. colombiensis – P. cristata – P. decorticans – P. giseleae – P. intermedia – P. melobesioides – P. mixta – P. ruetzleri – P. santodomingoae – P. soesti

Placospongia Gray, 1867: 128

• Type species: Placospongia melobesioides Gray, 1867, by monotypy.

• Physcaphora Hanitsch, 1895: 214
  • Type species: Physcaphora decorticans Hanitsch, 1895, by monotypy.

• Gray, J.E. 1867. On Placospongia, a new generic form of Spongiadae in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 127–129. BHL Reference page. 
• Hanitsch, R. 1895. Notes on a Collection of Sponges from the West Coast of Portugal. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society 9: 205–219, pls xii–xii. BHL Reference page. 

• Becking, L.E. 2013. Revision of the genus Placospongia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida, Placospongiidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. ZooKeys 298: 39–76. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.298.1913 Reference page. 
• Rützler, K., Piantoni, C., van Soest, R.W.M. & Díaz, M. C. 2014. Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. Zootaxa 3805(1): 1–129. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3805.1.1 Reference page. 
• van Soest, R.W.M. 2017. Sponges of the Guyana Shelf. Zootaxa 4217(1): 1–225. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4217.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Mácola, R. & Menegola, C. 2021. A new species of Placospongia Gray, 1867 (Porifera, Demospongiae, Placospongiidae) and new record of P. ruetzleri van Soest, 2017 from Northeast, Brazil. Zootaxa 5072(1): 12–22. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.1.2 Reference page. 
• David-Colón, J., Zea, S. & Marín-Casas, D. 2023. The genus Placospongia (Demospongiae: Clionaida) from the Colombian Caribbean. Zootaxa 5244(6): 501–526. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.6.1 Reference page. 
• Sandes, J., Moraes, F. & Muricy, G. 2024. Taxonomy of Placospongia Gray, 1867 from Northern and Northeastern Brazil, with description of two new species (Porifera: Demospongiae: Clionaida). Zootaxa 5405(4): 495–525. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.4.2 Reference page.