Caulophacus Discohexaster

''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
* '' Caulophacus brandtae'' Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
* '' Caulophacus leonieae '' Buskowiak & Janussen, 2021
* '' Caulophacus lotifolium'' Ijima, 1903
* '' Caulophacus onychohexactinus'' Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
* '' Caulophacus polyspicula'' Tabachnick, 1990
* '' Caulophacus valdiviae'' Schulze, 1904
Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulophacella'') Lendenfeld, 1915
* '' Caulophacus tenuis'' Lendenfeld, 1915
Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulophacus'') Schulze, 1886
* '' Caulophacus abyssalis'' Tabachnick, 1990
* '' Caulophacus adakensis'' Reiswig & Stone, 2013
* '' Caulophacus agassizi'' Schulze, 1899
* '' Caulophacus antarcticus'' Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910
* ''Caulophacus arcticus'' (Hansen, 1885)
* ''Caulophacus basispinosus'' Levi, 1964
* '' Caulophacus chilensis'' Reiswig & Araya, 2014
* '' 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 oviformis'' (Schulze, 1886)
* ''Caulophacus palmeri'' Goodwin, Berman, Janussen, Göcke & Hendry, 2016
* ''Caulophacus pipetta'' (Schulze, 1886)
* ''Caulophacus schulzei'' Wilson, 1904
* ''Caulophacus scotiae'' Topsent, 1910
* ''Caulophacus variens'' Tabachnick, 1988
* ''Caulophacus wilsoni'' Kersken, Janussen & Martínez Arbizu, 2018 (interim unpublished)
Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Oxydiscus'') Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
* '' Caulophacus weddelli'' Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004

See also

* List of prehistoric sponge genera

References

* 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,

External links

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Hexactinellida genera

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