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Caulophacus

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Genus of sponges

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 Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Hexactinellida
Order: Lyssacinosida
Family: Rossellidae
Subfamily: Lanuginellinae
Genus: Caulophacus
Schulze, 1886
Type species
Caulophacus latus
Schulze, 1886
Subgenera
  • Caulophacus (Caulodiscus)
  • Caulophacus (Caulophacella)
  • Caulophacus (Caulophacus)
  • Caulophacus (Oxydiscus)
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.

Species

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulodiscus) Ijima, 1927

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacella) Lendenfeld, 1915

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacus) Schulze, 1886

Subgenus Caulophacus (Oxydiscus) 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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Taxon identifiers
Caulophacus


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