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Books on Porifera (A-Z) (Cat 141) (updated August 2009)

Alander, H., 1942. Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. 95 p., 16 pls, wrps. Unopened; IS24553 € 22
Alvarez, B. et al., 1998. A revision of Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) of the central west Atlantic region. iii, 47 p., 23 figs, wrps (Smiths. Contr. Zool. 598); IS25057 € 6
Arndt, W., 1925-1938. Four papers (three on freshwater sponges and one on the use of sponges in medicine). ca. 125 p,. wrps; IS04049 € 14
Arndt, W., 1930. Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. Suesswasserschwaemme von Neuguinea. 12 p., 5 figs, roy. 4to, wrps; IS13898 € 10
Bergquist, P.R. & P.J. Fromont, 1988. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4. (Poecilosclerida). 138 p., 13 figs, 57 pls, paperbound (BM 96); IS04175 € 35
Bergquist, P.R., 1961. Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 expedition. Porifera: Demospongiae. Keratosa. 56 p., num. figs, 4to, paperbound; IS04051 € 14
Bergquist, P.R., 1970. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera: Demospongiae. Part 2 (Axinellida and Halichondrida). 85 p., 3 figs, 11 tables, 20 pls, 4to, paperbound; IS05355 € 26
Borojevic, R. et al., 1968. Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. 42 p., stapled; IS13598 € 9
Boury-Esnault, N. & K. Rützer (eds), 1997. Thesaurus of Sponge morphology. iv, 55 p., 118 figs, wrps (Smiths. Contr. Zool. 596); IS25056 € 7
Boury-Esnault, N. & M. van Beveren, 1982. Les Démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. 175 p., 34 full-page figs, 21 photogr. pls, 4to, wrps; IS27247 € 30
Boury-Esnault, N. et al., 1994. Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d’Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. 174 p., 118 figs, paperbound (mnhn160); IS13160 € 48
Brøndsted, H.V., 1934. Résultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Néerlandaises. Sponges. 27 p., 26 figs, roy. 4to, paperbound; IS13899 € 12
Brøndsted, H.V., 1937. Entwicklungsphysiologische Studien über Spongilla lacustris (L.). 103 p., 76 figs, paperbound. Author’s dedication; IS04053 € 24
Burton, M., 1929. British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910. Porifera. Part II. - Antarctic Sponges. 66 p., 9 figs, 5 pls, roy. 4to, paperbound; IS04183 € 32
Carter, H.J. et al., 1887. Three papers. 1) H.J. Carter: Report on the Marine Sponges, chiefly from King Island in the Mergui Archipelago. 24 p., 3 pls. 2) P.N. Duncan: On the Ophiuridae of the Mergui Archipelago. 23 p., 3 pls. 3) P.M. Duncan: On some parts of the anatomy of Ophiothrix variabilis, Dunc., and Ophiocampsis pellicula, Dunc., based on materials furnished by the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 14 p., 2 pls, stapled (Jl Linn. Soc. XXI#127-128); IS19115 € 15
Dawson, E.W., 1993. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Index to the fauna: 2. Porifera. 98 p., 4to, paperbound (BM 100); IS04176 € 18
Debrenne, F. et al., 1990. Regular Archaeocyaths. Morphology, systematic, biostratigraphy, palaeogeography, biological affinities. 256 p., 68 figs, 32 pls, 4to, paperbound. Text in English, with French Introduction, French Résumé, & figure legends in English & French; IS14096 € 46
Delage, Y. & E. Hérouard, 1899. Traité de zoologie concrète Tome II(1). Mésozoaires. Spongiaires. x, 244 p., 274 figs, 15 col. pls, cloth; IS04057 € 40
Dendy, A., 1918. Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. Calcareous Sponges. 17 p., 1 pl., 4to, paperbound; IS04058 € 10
Dendy, A., 1924. British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910. Porifera. Part I. - Non-Antarctic Sponges. 124 p., 15 pls, roy. 4to, paperbound; IS04182 € 55
Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R. & R.W.M. van Soest, 1995. A review of Iophonidae, Myxillidae and Tedaniidae occurring in the South East Pacific (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). 77 p., 135 figs, 18 tables, (offprint, no wrps); IS13535 € 8
Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R., 1984. Description de la faune des Haplosclerida (Porifera) de la Nouvelle-Calédonie I. Niphatidae-Callyspongiidae. 61 p., 32 pls, 1 map, disbound; IS04169 € 14
Erpenbeck, D., 2004. On the phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges. 208 p., 33 figs, paperbound. Thesis; IS15848 € 15
Fristedt, C., 1909. Sponges from the coast of Ellesmere Land (Report 2nd Norwegian Arctic Exped. in the Fram 1898-1902). 5 p., disbound; IS26085 € 5
Fristedt, K., 1885. Bidrag till kännedomen om de vid Sveriges vestra kust lefvande Spongiae. 56 p., 4 pls, wrps; IS24238 € 20
Garrone, R., 1975. Nature, genèse et fonctions des formations conjonctives chez les spongiaires. 302 p., 45 pls, 4to, paperbound (unsewn). Thesis; IS04060 € 40
Gravier, Ch., 1922. Hexactinidés provenant des Campagnes des yachts Hirondelle I et II et Princesse-Alice I et II (1888-1913). 105 p., 13 pls, folio, paperbound; IS04615 € 55
Griessinger, J.-M., 1971. Étude des Réniérides de Méditerranée (Démosponges Haplosclérides). 84 p., 3 pls, paperbound (Bull Mus natl Hist nat.); IS16288 € 10
Harrison, F.W. & R.R. Cowden, eds., 1976. Aspects of Sponge biology. xiii, 354 p., sev. figs/photos/tables, Cloth; IS27246 € 40
Hechtel, G.J., 1965. A systematic study of the Demospongiae of Port Royal, Jamaica. 103 p., 15 figs, 8 pls, paperbound; IS13592 € 14
Hooper, J.N.A. (ed.), 1998. Proceedings of the 5th International Sponge Symposium. Origin & Outlook. xi, 707 p., num. figs, paperbound (Mem. Queensland Mus. 44); IS05050 € 90
Hooper, J.N.A. & C. Lévi, 1993. Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the New Caledonia Lagoon. 78 p., 44 figs, stapled (Invert. Tax. 7); IS20751 € 16
Hooper, J.N.A. & F. Wiedenmayer, 1994. Zoological catalogue of Australia vol. 12. Porifera. xiii, 624 p., 183 figs, hardbound; IS04062 € 45
Hooper, J.N.A. et al., 2000. Three papers: A new Clathria from the western Indian Ocean / Resolving the ‘Jaspis stellifera’ complex / New species of toxic Tedania from northern Vanuatu. 49 p., 13 figs, 1 col. pl., disbound; IS04187 € 10
Hooper, J.N.A., 1984. Sigmaxinella soelae and Desmacella ithystela, two new desmacellid sponges from the northwest shelf of Western Australia, with a revision of the family Desmacellidae. 68 p., 18 figs, paperbound; IS04061 € 14
Laubenfels, M.W. de, 1932. The marine and fresh-water sponges of California. 140 p., 77 figs, paperbound; IS13595 € 24
Laubenfels, M.W. de, 1949. The sponges of Woods Hole and adjacent waters. 140 p., 77 figs, disbound (Bull. MCZ 103#1); IS24441 € 8
Lee, W.L., 2001. Four new species of Forcepia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Coelosphaerida) from California, and synonymy of Wilsa de Laubenfels, 1930, with Forcepia, Carter, 1874. 18 p., 11 figs, 1 table, stapled; IS13834 € 5
Lendenfeld, R. von, 1885. Important collection of articles (all from Proc. Linnean Soc. New South Wales) by (mainly) Lendenfeld on Australian Sponges and Hydromedusae from Australia. hundreds of pages, with plates, disbound; IS26475 € 50
Lendenfeld, R. von, 1896. Die Clavulina der Adria. 251 p., 12 (double) partly tinted lithographed pls, roy. 4to, paperbound, wrps (loose); IS13901 € 70
Lendenfeld, R. von, 1908 (reprint 1965). Das Tierreich. Tetraxonia. xv, 168 p., 44 figs, paperbound. Unopened; IS04065 € 28
Levi, C. & N. Boury-Esnault, 1979. Biologie des spongiaires. Sponge biology. 536 p., num. figs, 4to, paperbound; IS10587 € 52
Levi, C., 1950. Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. 28 p., stapled (Supplement 2); IS21664 € 9
Lévi, C., 1955-1983. Collection of 25 papers mainly on sponges; IS13564 € 40
Lévi, C., 1964. Spongiaires des zones bathyale, abyssale et hadale. 60 p., 63 figs, 10 pls, 4to, paperbound; IS13599 € 10
Lundbeck, W., 1905. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. Porifera (Part II). Desmacidonidae (Pars). 219 p., 7 figs, 20 pls, roy. 4to, paperbound (back broken, wrps missing); IS13904 € 70
Lundbeck, W., 1910. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition Vol. VI part 3. Porifera (Part III). Desmacidonidae (Pars). 124 p., 11 pls, roy. 4to, paperbound, wrps (backbroken); IS13905 € 50
Moore, H.F., 1910. A practical method of Sponge culture. 40 p., 9 pls, stapled (no covers); IS04173 € 12
Muricy, G. & E. Hajdu, 2006. Porifera Brasilis. Guia de identificaçao das esponjas marinhas mais comuns do Sudeste do Brasil. 104 p., fullcolour, 4to, paperbound (Mus. Nacl Serie Livros 17); IS22225 € 28
Pattanayak, J.G., 2006. Marine Sponges of Andaman & Nicobar Island, India. 1 folding map, 75 figs, 12 col. pls, paperbound (Zool. Surv. India); IS24680 € 18
Porifera, 2000. 15 papers on Porifera (all from Zoosystema 22#2). Total of 244 pages, stapled; IS13751 € 36
Pulitzer-Finali, G., 1993. A collection of marine Sponges from East Africa. 104 p., 78 figs, paperbound; IS04168 € 16
Reis Custódio, M. et al. (eds), 2006. Book of Abstracts of the 7th international Sponge symposium. Biodiversity innovation sustainability, May 7-13 2006, Búzios, Rio de Janeiro. xi, 707 p., num. figs, paperbound; IS23066 € 22
Row, R.W.H. & S. Hôzawa, 1931. Report on the Calcarea obtained by the Hamburg South-West Australian Expedition of 1905. 83 p., 17 figs, 3 pls, disbound. Ex-library; IS23886 € 8
Rudescu, L., 1975. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România. Porifera. Potamospongiae. 114 p., 42 figs, paperbound; IS04185 € 16
Rützler, K., 1971. Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian biological survey of Dominica: Burrowing Sponges, genus Siphonodictyon fom the Caribbean. 37 p., 11 figs, 9 pls, 4to, wrps (Smiths. Contr. Zool. 77); IS04070 € 8
Schulze, F.E., 1899. Amerikanische Hexactinelliden, nach dem Materiale der Albatross-Expedition. 2 vols (text & atlas, compl.), 126 p., 19 pls, wrps; IS27245 € 150
Schulze, F.E., 1900. Hexactinelliden des Rothen Meeres (Ber. Comm. Oceanograph. Forsch., Zool. Ergebn. XVI). 14 p., 3 pls, roy. 4to, wrps (back wrp missing); IS04181 € 18
Schulze, F.E., 1900. Die Hexactinelliden. 22 p., 4 pls, roy. 4to, wrps (reprint Fauna Arctica Bd 1#1); IS22539 € 24
Schulze, F.E., 1903. Caulophacus arcticus (Hansen) und Calycosoma gracile nov. spec. 22 p., 2 pls, 4to, wrps; IS04072 € 14
Sim, C.-J. & G.J. Bakus, 1986. Marine Sponges of Santa Catalina Island, California. 23 p., 4 figs, 4to, wrps; IS04073 € 6
Soest, R.W.M. van & N. Stentoft, 1988. Barbados deep-water sponges. 175 p., 66 figs, 12 pls, paperbound (SFC70); IS04075 € 40
Soest, R.W.M. van et al., 1976-2004. 19 papers on Porifera (mainly by Van Soest). 384 p., num. figs, disbound (all from Beaufortia).; IS25923 € 54
Soest, R.W.M. van, 1976. De Nederlandse mariene en zoetwatersponzen. Porifera. 36 p., 24 ffigs, wrps (KNNV115); IS21480 € 8
Soest, R.W.M. van, 1978-1984. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. I. Keratosa. Part II. Haplosclerida. III. Poecilosclerida. 434 p., 137 figs, 43 pls, paperbound (SFC56-62-66); IS04074 € 90
Soest, R.W.M. van, 1980. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part II. Haplosclerida. 173 p., 49 figs, 5 tables, 18 pls, paperbound (SFC66); IS24809 € 30
Soota, T.D., 1991. Freshwater Sponges of India. 116 p., 5 figs, paperbound. Library stamp; IS04167 € 18
Topsent, E., 1930. Éponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. 56 p., 4 pls, roy. 4to, disbound (from: Arch. Mus. 6e serie t.V); IS16004 € 20
Trigt, H. van, 1919. A contribution to the physiology of the freshwater sponges (Spongillidae). vi, 220 p., 15 partly fold. tables, 6 pls, wrps, Thesis; IS27244 € 22
Vacelet, J. (ed.), 2000. Zoosystema 22#2: Porifera 2000: Volume in honour of Professor Claude Lévi. 254 p., num. figs, paperbound (contains 15 articles on Sponges by various authors); IS25849 € 22
Vacelet, J. et al., 1976. Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (sud-ouest de Madagascar). 116 p., 78 figs, 10 pls, paperbound (mnhn99); IS04076 € 15
Vacelet, J., 1969. Éponges de la roche du large et de l’étage bathyal de Méditerranée (Récoltes de la soucoupe plongeante Cousteau et dragages). 73 p., 54 figs, 4 pls, paperbound. Unopened (mnhnnsA59 (2); IS24616 € 16
Vosmaer, G.C.J., 1880. The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. I. The family of the Desmacidinae. 66 p., paperbound (partly loose); IS04078 € 10
Vosmaer, G.C.J., 1911. The Porifera of the Siboga-Expedition. II. The genus Spirastrella. iv, 70 p., 14 pls, roy. 4to, plano (loose). Livr. 59; IS05154 € 35
Vosmaer, G.C.J., 1928. Bibliography of Sponges 1551-1913. xii, 234 p., cloth (outer ends spine worn); IS04077 € 45
Weerdt, W.H. de & R.W.M. van Soest, 1986. Marine shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera) from the south-eastern part of the north Atlantic Ocean (CANCAP Project No. 57). 49 p., 32 figs, paperbound (ZV225); IS17782 € 12
Weerdt, W.H. de, 1985-2000. 6 papers on Porifera Haplosclerida. 230 p., num. figs, disbound (all Beaufortia); IS25922 € 26
Weerdt, W.H. de, 1987. The shallow-water Haplosclerida (Dermospongiae) of the north east Atlantic Ocean: taxonomy, phylogeny and historical biogeography. 243 p., num. figs, 16 (1 col.) pls, 4to, paperbound. Thesis; IS04079 € 40