''Axoniderma'' is a genus of carnivorous

demosponges Demosponges or common sponges are sponges of the class Demospongiae (from + ), the most diverse group in the phylum Porifera which include greater than 90% of all extant sponges with nearly 8,800 species worldwide (according to the World P ...

in the family Cladorhizidae.de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Carballo, J.L.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2023). World Porifera Database. ''Axoniderma'' Ridley & Dendy, 1886. Accessed through
WoRMS
on 2023-06-05.

Taxonomy

The genus was first described by

Stuart Oliver Ridley Stuart Oliver Ridley (1853–1935) was an English cleric and zoologist. Early life He was born in 1853, the son of the Rev. Oliver Matthew Ridley and his first wife Laura Pole Stuart (died 1858), daughter of Sir William Stuart; Henry Nicholas Rid ...

and

Arthur Dendy Arthur Dendy (20 January 1865, in Manchester – 24 March 1925, in London) was an English zoologist known for his work on Sponge, marine sponges and the terrestrial invertebrates of Victoria, Australia, notably including the "living fossil" ''Per ...

in 1886 under the name ''Trochoderma'', based on the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

''Trochoderma mirabile''. The name was derived from the

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

words (), "wheel", and (), "skin". However, upon the discovery that the generic name '' Trochoderma'' was already in use, as a genus of

sea cucumbers Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea ( ). They are benthic marine animals found on the sea floor worldwide, and the number of known holothuroid species worldwide is about 1,786, with the greatest number being in the Asi ...

, the name ''Axoniderma'' was proposed, instead utilizing another Ancient Greek word for "wheel", (), thus making the type species '' Axoniderma mirabile''.Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1886). Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Part I. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. 18: 344, 493.

Species

The

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includes the following species:

References

Taxa named by Stuart Oliver Ridley Taxa named by Arthur Dendy Cladorhizidae Sponge genera {{Poriferan-stub