Scripps Institution of Oceanography

This is the sixth in a series of catalogs of holdings of the Benthic Invertebrate Collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ... The present catalog, containing 1,162 entries, covers the marine Porifera. The arrangement is systematic and each entry includes a catalog number and relevant field data.... Higher taxonomic categories used are as in J.N.A. Hooper and F. Wiedenmayer (1994, Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 12, "Porifera", Australian Biological Resources Study. CSIRO: Melbourne, Australia). Many of the determinations of species were done by researchers considered more knowledgeable than the present author. No attempt was made to update genera used by the original researcher....