Kaliwatan sa banaog ang Cacospongia mollior^[1]. Una ning gihulagway ni Schmidt ni adtong 1862.^[2] Ang Cacospongia mollior sakop sa kahenera nga Cacospongia, ug kabanay nga Thorectidae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• amihanang Kadagatang Atlantiko
• kasadpang Dagat Mediteraneo
• Dagat Adriyatiko
• Ionian Sea
• Aegean Sea
• Sri Lanka ug habagatang Indya
• Kadagatang Atlantiko
• Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra
• Azores Canaries Madeira
• Levantine Sea

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 53390476. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Corriero, G.; Abbiati, M.; Santangelo, G. (1997) Sponges inhabiting a Mediteranean red coral population , Marine Ecology. 18 (2), 147-155
3. ↑ Van Soest R.W.M, Boury-Esnault N., Hooper J.N.A., Rützler K., de Voogd N.J., Alvarez B., Hajdu E., Pisera A.B., Manconi R., Schönberg C., Klautau M., Picton B., Kelly M., Vacelet J., Dohrmann M., Díaz M.-C., Cárdenas P., Carballo J. L., Ríos P. & Downey R. (2019). WoRMS Porifera: World Porifera database (version 2019-03-05). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.