Literature

• Pers. comm. R.W.M. van Soest.
• Beek, I.J.M. van, Meesters, E.H.W.G. 2013. Saba Bank research expedition 2011 - Progress report. 46 pp. IMARES, Wageningen UR.
• Beek, I.J.M. van, Meesters, E.H.W.G. 2014. Saba Bank research expedition 2013 - Progress report. 45 pp. IMARES, Wageningen UR.
• Garciá-Hernández, J.E., Voogd, N.J. de, Soest, R.W.M. van 2016. Sponges (Porifera) of St. Eustatius. In: Marine biodiversity survey of St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean, 2015. 23-31. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, and ANEMOON Foundation, Bennebroek.
• Humann, P. 1992. Reef Creature Identification. New World Publications.
• Soest, R.W.M. van 1980. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part 2. Haplosclerida. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 62: 1-173.
• Soest, R.W.M. van 1981. A checklist of the Curaçao sponges (Porifera Demospongiae) including a pictorial key to the more common reef-forms. Verslagen en Technische Gegevens 31: 1-39.
• Soest, R.W.M. van, Weerdt, W.H. de 2001. New records of Xestospongia species (Haplosclerida: Petrosiidae) from the Curaçao reefs, with a description of a new species. Beaufortia 51(7): 109-117.
• Thacker, R.W., Díaz, M.C., Voogd, N.J. de, Soest, R.W.M. van, Freeman, C.J., Mobley, A.S., LaPietra, J., Cope, K., McKenna S. 2010. Preliminary assessment of sponge biodiversity on Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles. PLoS ONE 5(5): 5. [link]
• WoRMS. WoRMS, World Register of Marine Species. www.marinespecies.org. [link]

Literature references linked to higher taxa

• Voss, G.L. 1976. Seashore Life of Florida and the Caribbean. 167. E.A. Seemann Publishing, Inc.. (Porifera)