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SpongeMaps
an online community for taxonomy and identification of sponges

Data Resources
SpongeMaps classification delivered to ALA (source file in MSExcel format).
This classification follows the World Register of Marine Species' (WoRMS), World Porifera Database, and includes Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs or morphospecies concepts) each with a unique identifier. Presently only Linnaean species are fully visible on the ALA.

List of all SpongeMaps taxa
SpongeMaps full classification (source file in MSExcel format)
Application form for Travel Bursaries for Australian-based Students and Early Career Researchers to participate in the 10th World Sponge Conference (10WSC)

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