Montagu, G. (1818). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761 page(s): 93-95 [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Carballo, J.L.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.C. Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M. (2022). World Porifera Database. Spongia penicillus Montagu, 1814. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2022) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=193700 on 2023-02-02
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023). European Register of Marine Species. Spongia penicillus Montagu, 1814. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=193700 on 2023-02-02
original descriptionMontagu, G. (1818). An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society.</em> 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45847761 page(s): 93-95 [details]
redescriptionMorrow, C.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2000). Redescription of the type species of the genus <i>Polymastia</i> Bowerbank, 1864 (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida). <em>Zoosystema.</em> 22 (2): 327-335.[details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality