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Dr van Soest, Rob

Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC), more

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VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium, more
WoRMS Editorial Board (WoRMS editors), more

Function: Taxonomic editor

Belgian Register of Marine & Coastal Species, more
Bringing biogeographical data online, more
Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life, more
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence, more
Niet-inheemse soorten in het Belgisch deel van de Noordzee en omliggende estuaria, more
Web Accessible Taxonomic Expertise in MarBEF: PROviding an e-Platform for the European Taxonomists, more

Addink, W., Zoologisch Museum Amsterdam (ZMA)-Porifera. Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands., more
ERMS 2.0: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Accessed at http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php on yyyy-mm-dd, more
Garic, R.; Madin, L.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2025). World List of Thaliacea. Accessed at https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22626 on yyyy-mm-dd., more
Ichsan A.; Borel Best M.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME). VUB: Belgium; Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, University of Amsterdam: The Netherlands; (2017): Sponge faunas of exposed and sheltered reef flats in eastern Indonesia in 1984., more
NLBIF, Zoological Museum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (NL) - Bryozoa., more
NLBIF, Zoological Museum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (NL) - Coelenterata., more
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF): Zoological Museum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (NL) - Benthos monitoring of the North Sea_ research database. Accessed via http://www.gbif.org/dataset/50361be0-d9cd-11de-b793-b8a03c50a862 on yyyy-mm-dd, more
WPD: de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; 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.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera on yyyy-mm-dd, more

A1 Publications (33) [show]
Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. Zootaxa, 5398(1). Magnolia Press: Auckland. 122 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5398.1.1, more Schejter, L.; Ríos, P.; Cristobo, J.; van Soest, R. (2022). On the identity of "Dendrilla membranosa" (Porifera, Dendroceratida) sensu Burton, and the specimens collected in Argentina, SW Atlantic Ocean. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 50(5): 790-794. https://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol50-issue5-fulltext-2939, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Butler, P.J. (2020). Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms. Zootaxa, 4745(1). Magnolia Press: Auckland. ISBN 978-1-77670-891-8. 93 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1, more Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Fauchald, K.; Gordon, D.; Hoeksema, B.W.; Poore, G.C.B.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stöhr, S.; Walter, T.C.; Vanhoorne, B.; Decock, W.; Appeltans, W. (2013). Global coordination and standardisation in marine biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and related databases. PLoS One 8(1): 20 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051629, more Appeltans, W.; Ahyong, S.T.; Anderson, G.; Angel, M.V.; Artois, T.; Bailly, N.; Bamber, R.N.; Barber, A.; Bartsch, I.; Berta, A.; Blazewicz-Paszkowycz , M.; Bock, P.; Boxshall, G.; Boyko, C.B.; Nunes Brandão, S.; Bray, R.A.; Bruce, N.L.; Cairns, S.D.; Chan, T.-Y.; Cheng, L.; Collins, A.G.; Cribb, T.H.; Curini-Galletti, M.; Dahdouh-Guebas, F.; Davie, P.J.F.; Dawson, M.N.; De Clerck, O.; Decock, W.; De Grave, S.; de Voogd, N.J.; Domning, D.P.; Emig, C.C.; Erséus, Ch.; Eschmeyer, W.; Fauchald, K.; Fautin, D.G.; Feist, S.W.; Fransen, C.H.J.M.; Furuya, H.; García-Alvarez, O.; Gerken, S.; Gibson, D.; Gittenberger, A.; Gofas, S.; Gómez-Daglio, L.; Gordon, D.P.; Guiry, M.D.; Hernandez, F.; Hoeksema, B.W.; Hopcroft, R.R.; Jaume, D.; Kirk, P.; Koedam, N.; Koenemann, S.; Kolb, J.B.; Kristensen, R.M.; Kroh, A.; Lambert, G.; Lazarus, D.B.; Lemaitre, R.; Longshaw, M.; Lowry, J.; MacPherson, E.; Madin, L.P.; Mah, C.; Mapstone, G.; McLaughlin, P.A.; Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Messing, C.G.; Mills, C.E.; Molodtsova, T.N.; Mooi, R.; Neuhaus, B.; Ng, P.K.L.; Nielsen, C.; Norenburg, J.; Opresko, D.M.; Osawa, M.; Paulay, G.; Perrin, W.; Pilger, J.F.; Poore, G.C.B.; Pugh, Ph.R.; Read, G.B.; Reimer, J.D.; Rius, M.; Rocha, R.M.; Sáiz Salinas, J.I.; Scarabino, V.; Schierwater, B.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, A.; Schnabel, K.E.; Schotte, M.; Schuchert, P.; Schwabe, E.; Segers, H.; Self-Sullivan, C.; Shenkar, N.; Siegel, V.; Sterrer, W.; Stöhr, S.; Swalla, B.; Tasker, M.L.; Thuesen, E.V.; Timm, T.; Todaro, M.A.; Turon, X.; Tyler, S.; Uetz, P.; van der Land, J.; Vanhoorne, B.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Walker-Smith, G.K.; Walter, T.C.; Warren, A.; Williams, G.C.; Wilson, S.P.; Costello, M.J. (2012). The magnitude of global marine species diversity. Curr. Biol. 22(23): 2189-2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Erpenbeck, D.; de Voogd, N.J.; Santodomingo, N.; Vanhoorne, B.; Kelly, M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2012). Global diversity of sponges (Porifera). PLoS One 7(4): e35105. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035105, more Goodwin, C.E.; Picton, B.E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2011). Hymedesmia (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from Irish and Scottish cold-water coral reefs, with a description of five new species. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 91(5): 979-997. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315411000014, more Reveillaud, J.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Derycke, S.; Picton, B.E.; Rigaux, A.; Vanreusel, A. (2011). Phylogenetic relationships among NE Atlantic Plocamionida Topsent (1927) (Porifera, Poecilosclerida): under-estimated diversity in reef ecosystems. PLoS One 6(2): e16533. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016533, more van Duyl, F.C.; Moodley, L.; Nieuwland, G.; van Ijzerloo, L.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Houtekamer, M.; Meesters, E.H.; Middelburg, J.J. (2011). Coral cavity sponges depend on reef-derived food resources: stable isotope and fatty acid constraints. Mar. Biol. (Berl.) 158(7): 1653-1666. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-011-1681-z, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Baker, B.J. (2011). A new carnivorous shallow-water sponge from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (Porifera, Poecilosclerida). Mar. Biodiv. 41(4): 495-501. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-010-0076-6, more Hunting, E.R.; van der Geest, H.G.; Krieg, A.J.; van Mierlo, M.B.L.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2010). Mangrove-sponge associations: a possible role for tannins. Aquat. Ecol. 44(4): 679-684. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10452-009-9306-z, more Reveillaud, J.; Remerie, T.; van Soest, R.; Erpenbeck, D.; Cardenas, P.; Derycke, S.; Xavier, J.; Rigaux, A.; Vanreusel, A. (2010). Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships between Atlanto-Mediterranean shallow-water and deep-sea coral associated Hexadella species (Porifera, Ianthellidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 56(1): 104-114. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.034, more Erpenbeck, D.; van Soest, R.W. (2007). Status and perspective of sponge chemosystematics. Mar. Biotechnol. 9(1): 2-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10126-005-6109-7, more Raleigh, J.; Redmond, N.E.; Delahan, E.; Torpey, S.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Kelly, M.; McCormack, G.P. (2007). Mitochondrial Cytochrome oxidase 1 phylogeny supports alternative taxonomic scheme for the marine Haplosclerida. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87(6): 1577-1584. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315407058341, more Salmoun, M.; Braekman, J.C.; Dewelle, J.; Darro, F.; Kiss, R.; De Voogd, N.J.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2007). New terpenoids from two Indonesian marine sponges. Nat. Prod. Res. 21(2): 149-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786410600899233, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (2007). Sponge biodiversity. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. Spec. Issue 87(6): 1345-1348, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; de Kluijver, M.J.; van Bragt, P.H.; Faasse, M.; Nijland, R.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Weerdt, W.H.; de Voogd, N.J. (2007). Sponge invaders in Dutch coastal waters. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87(6): 1733-1748. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002531540705816X, more Xavier, J.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2007). Demosponge fauna of Ormonde and Gettysburg Seamounts (Gorringe Bank, north-east Atlantic): Diversity and zoogeographical affinities. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. Spec. Issue 87(6): 1643-1653. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315407058584, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2005). Resurrection of Desmoxya (Porifera: Halichondrida), with the description of a new species from Rockall Bank bathyal coral reefs, North Atlantic. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 85(6): 1367-1371. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315405012543, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Lavaleye, M.S.S. (2005). Diversity and abundance of sponges in bathyal coral reefs of Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic, from boxcore samples. Mar. Biol. Res. 1(5): 338-349, more de S. Carvalho, M.; Hajdu, E.; Mothes, B.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2004). Amorphinopsis (Halichondrida: Demospongiae) from the Atlantic Ocean, with the description of a new species. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84(5): 925-930. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315404010203h, more Braekman, J.C.; Daloze, D.; Devijver, C.; Dubut, D.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2003). A new C-20 polyacetylene from the sponge Callyspongia pseudoreticulata. J. Nat. Prod. 66(6): 871-872. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/np0300840, more Richelle-Maurer, E.; De Kluijver, M.J.; Feio, S.; Gaudencio, S.; Gaspar, H.; Gomez, R.; Tavares, R.; Van de Vyver, G.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2003). Localization and ecological significance of oroidin and sceptrin in the Caribbean sponge Agelas conifera. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 31(10): 1073-1091. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0305-1978(03)00072-3, more Richelle-Maurer, E.; Gomez, R.; Braekman, J.C.; Van de Vyver, G.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Devijver, C. (2003). Primary cultures from the marine sponge Xestospongia muta (Petrosiidae, Haplosclerida). Journal of biotechnology 100(2): 169-176. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-1656(02)00251-1, more Erpenbeck, D.; Breeuwer, J.A.J.; van der Velde, H.C.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Unravelling host and symbiont phylogenies of halichondrid sponges (Demospongiae, Porifera) using a mitochondrial marker. Mar. Biol. (Berl.) 141(2): 377-386. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-002-0785-x, more Salmoun, M.; Devijver, C.; Daloze, D.; Braekman, J.C.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). 5-Hydroxytryptamine-derived alkaloids from two marine sponges of the genus Hyrtios. J. Nat. Prod. 65(8): 1173-1176. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/np020009+, more Braekman, J.C.; Daloze, D.; Tavares, R.; Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2000). Novel polycyclic guanidine alkaloids from two marine sponges of the genus Monanchora. J. Nat. Prod. 63(2): 193-196. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/np990403g, more Salmoun, M.; Devijver, C.; Daloze, D.; Braekman, J.C.; Gomez, R.; de Kluijver, M.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2000). New sesquiterpene/quinones from two sponges of the genus Hyrtios. J. Nat. Prod. 63(4): 452-456. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/np9903346, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2000). New species of Desmanthus (Porifera, Demospongiae) with a discussion of its ordinal relationships. Zoosystema 22(2): 299-312, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Lehnert, H. (1997). The genus Julavis De Laubenfels (Porifera: Halichondrida). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 110(4): 502-510, more Tavares, R.; Daloze, D.; Braekman, J.C.; Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1995). 8b-hydroxyptilocaulin, a new guanidine alkaloid from the sponge Monanchora arbuscula. J. Nat. Prod. 58(7): 1139-1142. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/np50121a029, more Tavares, R.; Daloze, D.; Braekman, J.C.; Hajdu, E.; Muricy, G.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1994). Isolation of crambescidin 800 from Monanchora arbuscula (Porifera). Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 22(6): 645-646. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-1978(94)90078-7, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Distribution of sponges on the Mauritanian continental shelf. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 95-106, more
Peer reviewed publications (22) [show]
Reveillaud, J.; Remerie, T.; van Soest, R.; Vanreusel, A.; Henriet, JP. (2006). Genetic diversity study of broad range sponge taxa for new insights into the connectivity of cold-water coral reefs along the European margins. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 8: 04509, more Ilan, M.; Gugel, J.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2004). Taxonomy, reproduction and ecology of new and known Red Sea sponges. Sarsia 89(6): 388-410, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Braekman, J.C. (1999). Chemosystematics of Porifera: A review. Mem. Queensl. Mus. 44: 569-589, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). A new sponge Desmapsamma vervoorti spec. nov. (Poeciloslerida: Desmacididae) from Indonesia. Zool. Verh. 323: 427-434, more Hajdu, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1996). Choosing among poriferan morphological characters within the cladistic paradigm. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Biologie 66(Suppl.): 81-88, more Sanders, M.L.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1996). A revised classification of Spongia mycofijiensis. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Biologie 66(Suppl.): 117-122, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Braekman, J.C.; Faulkner, D.J.; Hajdu, E.; Harper, M.K.; Vacelet, J. (1996). The genus Batzella: a chemosystematic problem. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Biologie 66(Suppl.): 89-101, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Wright, A.D.; König, G.M. (1996). Cymbastela hooperi sp. nov. (Halichondrida: Axinellidae) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Biologie 66(Suppl.): 103-108, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Schalk, P.H.; Smith, K.; Picton, B.E.; Brugman, M.; Díaz, M.C.; Sanders, M.L.; de Weerdt, W.H.; Rützler, K. (1996). Por-Linnaeus: the application of interactive multimedia software for species data storage and computer assisted identification of Porifera. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Biologie 66(Suppl.): 63-72, more Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Suberitidae (Demospongiae, Hadromerida) from the North Aegean Sea. Beaufortia 43(11): 176-186, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Hiemstra, F. (1991). Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the marine sponge genus Acarnus (Porifera: Poecilosclerida). Beaufortia 42(3): 49-88, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1990). Monanchora stocki n. sp. (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) from the Mid-Atlantic Islands. Bijdr. Dierkd. 60(3-4): 249-255, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Cristina Diaz, M.; Pomponi, S.A. (1990). Phylogenetic classification of the halichondrids (Porifera, Demospongiae). Beaufortia 40(2): 15-62, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1989). The Indonesian sponge fauna: a status report. Neth. J. Sea Res. 23(2): 223-230. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0077-7579(89)90016-1, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1988). Tetrapocillon atlanticus n. sp. (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) from the Cape Verde islands. Beaufortia 38(2): 37-46, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M. (1986). Antho brattegardi sp. n. (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), with remarks on and a key to the clathriids of Norwegian waters. Sarsia 71(1): 41-48, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1984). Deficient Merlia normani Kirkpatrick, 1908, from the Curaçao reefs, with a discussion on the phylogenetic interpretation of sclerosponges. Bijdr. Dierkd. 54(2): 211-219, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1983). Sponzenonderzoek in Nederland. Het Zeepaard 43(2): 28-30, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Sass, D.B. (1981). Amsterdam expeditions to the West Indian Islands, report 13. Marine sponges from an island cave on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Bijdr. Dierkd. 51(2): 332-344, more Buizer, D.A.G.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1977). Mycale micracanthoxea nov. spec. (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) from the Netherlands. Neth. J. Sea Res. 11(3-4): 297-304, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1976). De Nederlandse mariene en zoetwatersponzen: Porifera. Wetenschappelijke Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 115. Koninklijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging (KNNV): Hoogwoud. 36 pp., more van der Spoel, S.; Hallegraeff, G.M.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1973). Notes on variation of diatoms and silico flagellates in the South Atlantic Ocean. Neth. J. Sea Res. 6(4): 518-541, more
Books (5) [show]
van der Mark, C.; Ates, R.; De Boois, I.; Bor, P.; Buizer, B.; van der Burgt, F.; Camphuysen, K.; Dekker, W.; Driessen, F.; Den Hartog, K.; Huijsman, M.; Karremans, M.; Oosterbaan, A.; Otten, B.G.; Perk, F.; de Ruijter, E.; de Ruijter, G.; van Santbrink, J.; Schoenmaker, A.; van Soest, R.; Stegenga, H.; Tulp, A. (2014). Zeeboek: Determinatietabellen voor flora en fauna van de Nederlandse kust. Stichting Jeugdbondsuitgeverij: 's Graveland. ISBN 978-90-5107-000-2. 240 pp., more Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York. ISBN 0-306-47260-0. 2 vols. pp., more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Picton, B.; Morrow, C. (2000). Sponges of the North East Atlantic [CD-ROM]. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam. ISBN 3-540-14774-8. 1 cd-rom pp., more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Van Kempen, T.M.G.; Braekman, J.C. (Ed.) (1994). Sponges in Time and Space: Biology, Chemistry, Paleontology. Proceedings of the Fourth International Porifera Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 19-23, 1993. A.A. Balkema: Amsterdam. ISBN 9054100974. 515 pp., more Dekker, R.; Dekker, W.; Huijman, M.; de Ruyter, G.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; de Winter, W. (1984). Het zeeboek: met nieuwe praktische tabellen voor de fauna van de Nederlandse kust. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij (JBU) en de auteurs: 's Graveland. 150 pp., more
Book chapters (20) [show]
van Soest, R. (2019). Sponzen, in: de Vries, R. (Ed.) Zeeboek: determinatietabellen voor de flora en fauna van de Nederlandse kust. pp. 54-61, more Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Class Demospongiae Sollas, 1885, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 15-18, more Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Spirasigmidae Hallmann, 1912, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 102-104, more Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Order Astrophorida Sollas, 1888, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 105-107, more Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Order Hadromerida Topsent, 1894, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 169-172, more Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Trachycladidae Hallmann, 1917, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 268-274, more Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Debrenne, F. (2002). Phylum Porifera Grant, 1836, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 9-13, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Sollasellidae Lendenfeld, 1887, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 279-280, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Suberitidae Schmidt, 1870, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 227-244, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Calthropellidae Lendenfeld, 1907, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 127-133, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Order Spirophorida Bergquist & Hogg, 1969, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 83-84, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Samidae Sollas, 1888, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 99-101, more Van Soest, R.W.M.; Rützler, K. (2002). Family Tetillidae Sollas, 1886, in: Hooper, J.N.A. et al. (Ed.) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. pp. 85-98, more van der Land, J.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Thaliacea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 355-356, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). The cladistic biogeography of salps and pyrosomas, in: Bone, Q. (Ed.) The biology of pelagic Tunicates. pp. 231-249, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1989). Sponzen, in: de Ruijter, E. et al. Zeeboek. pp. 48-54, more de Weerdt, W.H.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1987). A review of north-eastern Atlantic Hemigellius (Niphatidae, Haplosclerida), in: Vacelet, J. et al. (Ed.) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G: Ecological sciences, 13: pp. 309-321, more Van Soest, R.W.M. (1987). Phylogenetic exercises with monophyletic groups of sponges, in: Vacelet, J. et al. (Ed.) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G: Ecological sciences, 13: pp. 227-241, more Wapstra, M.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1987). Sexual reproduction, larval morphology and behaviour in Demosponges from the southwest of the Netherlands, in: Vacelet, J. et al. (Ed.) Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G: Ecological sciences, 13: pp. 281-307, more
Thesis [show]
Van Soest, R.W.M. (1975). Taxonomie van de Salpidae: een serie artikelen met als onderwerp de systematiek, zoögeografie en speciatie van een familie van holoplanktonische, epipelagische Manteldieren (Tunicata, Thaliacea). PhD Thesis. Universiteit van Amsterdam: Amsterdam. [Diff. pag.] pp., more
Abstracts (2) [show]
Appeltans, W.; Decock, W.; Vanhoorne, B.; Hernandez, F.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Fauchald, K.; Gordon, D.P.; Poore, G.C.B.; van Soest, R.; Stöhr, S.; Walter, C.; Costello, M.J. (2011). The World Register of Marine Species: an authoritative, open-access web-resource for all marine species, in: The future of the 21st century ocean: Marine Sciences and European Research Infrastructures. An International Symposium, 28th June - 1 July 2011 Brest, France. pp. 30, more Appeltans, W.; Decock, W.; Vanhoorne, B.; Hernandez, F.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Fauchald, K.; Gordon, D.P.; Poore, G.C.B.; Hoeksema, B.W.; van Soest, R.W. (2010). The World Register of Marine Species, the first online inventory of all marine species, in: A decade of discovery: Census of Marine Life 2010. The J. Frederick Grassle Scientific Symposium on the Census of Marine Life: Poster abstracts. pp. [1], more
Other publications (2) [show]
Appeltans, W.; Decock, W.; Vanhoorne, B.; Hernandez, F.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Fauchald, K.; Gordon, D.P.; Hoeksema, B.W.; Poore, G.C.B.; van Soest, R.; Stöhr, S.; Walter, C.; Costello, M.J. (2010). The World Register of Marine Species, the first online inventory of all marine species [Poster]. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)/WoRMS Steering Committee: Oostende. 1 poster pp., more Braekman, J.C.; Daloze, D.; Grégoire, F.; Popov, S.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1994). Two new kalihinenes from the marine sponge Acanthella cavernosa. Bull. Soc. Chim. Belges 103(5-6): 187-191. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bscb.19941030504, more
Thesis (co-)promotor [show]
Ichsan, A. (1989). A comparison of sponge faunas of exposed and sheltered reef flats in eastern Indonesia. MSc Thesis. Universiteit van Amsterdam: Amsterdam. 52 pp., more

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