Species under Polymastia
n= 21
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Polymastia agglutinans
(Lamarck, 1815)
Northeast Atlantic
Polymastia andrica
de Laubenfels, 1949
Many-knotted horny sponge Northern Atlantic and the Arctic
Polymastia boletiformis
Bowerbank, 1874
Yellow hedgehog sponge Northeast Atlantic
Polymastia croceus
Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997
Southwest Pacific
Polymastia gemmipara
Dendy, 1916
Western Central Pacific
Polymastia granulosa
Brøndsted, 1924
Southwest Pacific
Polymastia grimaldii
(Topsent, 1913)
Northern Atlantic
Polymastia hemisphaerica
(Sars, 1872)
Arctic
Polymastia invaginata
Kirkpatrick, 1907
Southern Ocean and the Antarctic
Polymastia isidis
Thiele, 1905
Antarctic
Polymastia mamillaris
(Müller, 1806)
Teat sponge Northeast Atlantic and the Arctic
Polymastia pachymastia
de Laubenfels, 1932
Black-orange spud sponge Northeast Pacific
Polymastia pacifica
(Lambe, 1893)
Aggregated nipple sponge Eastern Pacific 2
Polymastia polytylota
Vacelet, 1969
Mediterranean
Polymastia rara
Koltun, 1966
Arctic and Northwest Pacific
Polymastia robusta
unspecified
Nipple sponge Northwest Atlantic
Polymastia tenax
Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Western Central Atlantic
Polymastia thielei
Koltun, 1964
Northern Atlantic and the Arctic
Polymastia tropicalis
Lévi, 1967
Western Central Pacific
Polymastia tubulifera
Dendy, 1922
Western Indian Ocean
Polymastia uberrima
(Schmidt, 1870)
Arctic and Northern Atlantic
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