Species Detail - Purse Sponge (Grantia compressa) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Irish Lagoon Surveys".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Grantia compressa
Purse Sponge
NBNSYS0000175545
RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
grcom
(Fabricius, 1780)
Sponge (Porifera)
Species
1
1
1
01/07/2016
31/10/2016
1 January (recorded in 1985)
14 November (recorded in 2016)
Geoff Oliver and Eddie McCormack, Irish Lagoon Surveys, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purse Sponge (Grantia compressa), accessed 20 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/303/Species/131921