Caulophacus

Caulophacus
Caulophacus elegans, illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887).
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Hexactinellida
Order: Lyssacinosa
Family: Rossellidae
Subfamily: Lanuginellinae
Genus: Caulophacus
Type species
Caulophacus latus
Schulze, 1886
Subgenera
  • Caulophacus (Caulodiscus) Ijima, 1927
  • Caulophacus (Caulophacella) Lendenfeld, 1915
  • Caulophacus (Caulophacus) Schulze, 1886
  • Caulophacus (Oxydiscus) Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
Caulophacus elegans, illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887).

Caulophacus is a genus of glass sponges belonging to the subfamily Lanuginellinae.

Genera

  • Caulophacus abyssalis Tabachnick, 1990
  • Caulophacus agassizi Schulze, 1899
  • Caulophacus antarcticus Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910
  • Caulophacus arcticus (Hansen, 1885)
  • Caulophacus basispinosus Levi, 1964
  • Caulophacus brandtae Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
  • Caulophacus cyanae Boury-Esnault & De Vos, 1988
  • Caulophacus discohexactinus Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
  • Caulophacus discohexaster Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
  • Caulophacus elegans Schulze, 1886
  • Caulophacus galatheae Levi, 1964
  • Caulophacus hadalis Levi, 1964
  • Caulophacus instabilis Topsent, 1910
  • Caulophacus latus Schulze, 1886
  • Caulophacus lotifolium Ijima, 1903
  • Caulophacus onychohexactinus Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
  • Caulophacus oviformis (Schulze, 1886)
  • Caulophacus pipetta (Schulze, 1886)
  • Caulophacus polyspicula Tabachnick, 1990
  • Caulophacus schulzei Wilson, 1904
  • Caulophacus scotiae Topsent, 1910
  • Caulophacus valdiviae Schulze, 1904
  • Caulophacus variens Tabachnick, 1988
  • Caulophacus weddelli Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004

See also

References

  1. ↑ Über den bau und das system der hexactinelliden. FE Schulze - 1886
  • Reiswig, H.M.; Araya, J.F. 2014: A review of the Hexactinellida (Porifera) of Chile, with the first record of Caulophacus Schulze, 1885 (Lyssacinosida: Rossellidae) from the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 3889 (3): 413–428, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.4


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