Spongia

Spongia is a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae, originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1759, containing more than 60 species. Some species, including Spongia officinalis, are used as cleaning tools, but have mostly been replaced in that use by synthetic or plant material.
Classification
The following species are recognised in the genus Spongia:
Subgenus unassigned
Spongia alpheushyatti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia alpheusi Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia hyatti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia jeanbaptistei Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia lacinulosa Lamarck, 1814
Spongia lamarcki Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
†Spongia mantelli Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia muricata sensu Linnaeus, 1759
Spongia solidahyatti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia stellifera Lamarck, 1814
Subgenus Australospongia Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Spongia gracilis Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Subgenus Heterofibria Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Spongia catarinensis Mothes, Kasper, Lerner, Campos & Carraro, 2006
Spongia corallina Kim & Sim, 2009
Spongia corrugata Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Spongia decooki Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia gorgonocephalus Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Spongia manipulatus Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Spongia mokohinau Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Spongia peddemorsi Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2020
Spongia purpurea Kim & Sim, 2009
Spongia smaragdus Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019
Subgenus Spongia
Spongia adjimensis (Topsent, 1925)
Spongia agaricina Pallas, 1766
Spongia anclotea de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
Spongia arabica arabica Keller, 1889
Spongia australis Bergquist, 1995
Spongia bailyi (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Spongia barbara Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Spongia bibulus Rao, 1941
Spongia brunnea Lévi, 1969
Spongia cerebralis Thiele, 1905
Spongia ceylonensis (Dendy, 1905)
Spongia coelosia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Spongia conifera (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Spongia cookii Hyatt, 1877
Spongia distans (Schulz, 1900)
Spongia excavata (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Spongia fistulosa (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Spongia fuscoides Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia graminea Hyatt, 1877
Spongia hispida Lamarck, 1814
Spongia hospes (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Spongia illawarra (Whitelegge, 1901)
Spongia lamella (Schulze, 1879)
Spongia lesleighae Helmy, El Serehy, Mohamed & van Soest, 2004
Spongia lignea Hyatt, 1877
Spongia lobosa (Poléjaeff, 1884)
Spongia magellanica Thiele, 1905
Spongia matamata de Laubenfels, 1954
Spongia mexicana Hyatt, 1877
Spongia mollicula Hyatt, 1877
Spongia mollissima Schmidt, 1862
Spongia nicholsoni Hyatt, 1877
Spongia nitens (Schmidt, 1862)
Spongia obliqua Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Spongia obscura Hyatt, 1877
Spongia oceanica de Laubenfels, 1950
Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759
Spongia osculata (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Spongia osculosa (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Spongia perforata(Lendenfeld, 1889)
Spongia pilosa (Wilson, 1902)
Spongia raoi Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Spongia reticulata (Lendenfeld, 1886)
Spongia solitaria Hyatt, 1877
Spongia spinosa (Lendenfeld, 1888)
Spongia sterea de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
Spongia suriganensis (Wilson, 1925)
Spongia sweeti (Kirkpatrick, 1900)
Spongia tampa de Laubenfels & Storr, 1958
Spongia tectoria Hyatt, 1877
Spongia tenuiramosa (Dendy, 1905)
Spongia tubulifera Lamarck, 1814
Spongia violacea Lévi, 1969
Spongia virgultosa (Schmidt, 1868)
Spongia zimocca Schmidt, 1862
References
Spongiidae