Phorbas (sponge)

Phorbas is a genus of demosponges belonging to the family Hymedesmiidae.

Phorbas
Phorbas tenacior
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Poecilosclerida
Family:	Hymedesmiidae
Genus:	Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Species
See text
Synonyms
Anchinoe (Gray, 1867) Bipocillopsis (Koltun, 1964) Clathrissa (Lendenfeld, 1888) Grayax (Laubenfels, 1936) Lissopocillon (Ferrer-Hernandez, 1916) Merriamium (Laubenfels, 1936) Plumohalichondria (Carter, 1876) Podotuberculum (Bakus, 1966) Pronax sensu (Gray, 1867) Pronaxella (Burton, 1931') Stylostichon (Topsent, 1892) Suberotelites (Schmidt, 1868)

Species

The following species are recognised:

• Phorbas acanthochela (Koltun, 1964)
• Phorbas amaranthus (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
• Phorbas arborescens (Ridley, 1884)
• Phorbas arbuscula (Lendenfeld, 1888)
• Phorbas areolatus (Thiele, 1905)
• Phorbas armatus (Schmidt, 1868)
• Phorbas aurantiacus (Rützler, Piantoni, Van Soest & Diaz, 2014)
• Phorbas baffini (Brøndsted, 1933)
• Phorbas bardajii (Uriz, 1988)
• Phorbas benguelensis (Uriz, 1984)
• Phorbas bergmontae (Hajdu & Teixeira, 2011)
• Phorbas bihamiger (Waller, 1878)
• Phorbas burtoni (Hajdu & Teixeira, 2011)
• Phorbas caespitosus (Carter, 1885)
• Phorbas californianus (Laubenfels, 1932)
• Phorbas capixaba (Hajdu & Teixeira, 2011)
• Phorbas clathratus (Lévi, 1963)
• Phorbas clathrodes (Dendy, 1922)
• Phorbas claviger (Levinsen, 1887)
• Phorbas dayi (Lévi, 1963)
• Phorbas demonstrans (Topsent, 1890)
• Phorbas dendyi (Topsent, 1890)
• Phorbas dives (Topsent, 1891)
• Phorbas domini (Boury-Esnault & van Beveren, 1982)
• Phorbas epizoaria (Lévi, 1958)
• Phorbas equiosculatus (Pansini, 1987)
• Phorbas erectus (Lévi, 1993)
• Phorbas ferrerhernandezi (van Soest, 2002)
• Phorbas ferrugineus (Goodwin, Jones, Neely & Brickle, 2011)
• Phorbas fibrosus (Lévi, 1963)
• Phorbas fibulatus (Topsent, 1893)
• Phorbas fictitioides (Dendy & Frederick, 1924)
• Phorbas fictitius (Bowerbank, 1866)
• Phorbas frutex Pulitzer-Finali, 1993
• Phorbas fulvus (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988)
• Phorbas fusifer (Ridley & Dendy, 1887)
• Phorbas glaberrimus (Topsent, 1916)
• Phorbas gravidus (Dendy, 1896)
• Phorbas gukhulensis (Sim & Kim, 2004)
• Phorbas hechteli (Hajdu & Teixeira, 2011)
• Phorbas hoffmani (Bakus, 1966)
• Phorbas intermedius Bergquist, 1961
• Phorbas kovdaicum (Rezvoi, 1925)
• Phorbas lamellatus (Lévi, 1963)
• Phorbas lieberkuehni (Burton, 1930)
• Phorbas longurioides (Burton, 1932)
• Phorbas megasigma Rios & Cristobo, 2007
• Phorbas mercator (Schmidt, 1868)
• Phorbas microchelifer (Cabioch, 1968)
• Phorbas mollis (Kirkpatrick, 1903)
• Phorbas nexus (Koltun, 1964)
• Phorbas osculosus (Topsent, 1892)
• Phorbas palmatus Pulitzer-Finali, 1993
• Phorbas papillatus (Dendy, 1922)
• Phorbas papillosus (Arnesen, 1903)
• Phorbas paucistylifer (Koltun, 1958)
• Phorbas perarmatus (Bowerbank, 1866)
• Phorbas plumosus (Montagu, 1814)
• Phorbas posidoni (Voultsiadou-Koukoura & van Soest, 1991)
• Phorbas punctatus (Picton & Goodwin, 2007)
• Phorbas purpureus (Carter, 1886)
• Phorbas pustulosus (Carter, 1882), Baseball glove sponge
• Phorbas ramosus (Lendenfeld, 1888)
• Phorbas reginae (Aguilar-Camacho & Carballo, 2012)
• Phorbas repens (Topsent, 1904)
• Phorbas roemeri (Hentschel, 1929)
• Phorbas roxasi (de Laubenfels, 1935)
• Phorbas salebrosus (Koltun, 1958)
• Phorbas scabida (sensu Vacelet, Vasseur & Lévi, 1976)
• Phorbas shackletoni (Goodwin, Jones, Neely & Brickle, 2011)
• Phorbas styliferus (Burton, 1959)
• Phorbas tailliezi (Vacelet & Pérez, 2008)
• Phorbas tanitai (Hajdu & Teixeira, 2011)
• Phorbas tenacior (Topsent, 1925)
• Phorbas tenuis (Cuartas, 1992)
• Phorbas tenuispiculatus (Dendy, 1896)
• Phorbas thela (Vosmaer, 1880)
• Phorbas tokushima (Tanita, 1970)
• Phorbas topsenti (Vacelet & Pérez, 2008)
• Phorbas uncifer (Dendy, 1896)
• Phorbas viecquensis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)