Mycalidae is a
family of marine
demosponges.
Genera
According to the World Register of Marine Species, there are only two
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
in this family. Previously there were about 26, but most of these have been reallocated as sub-genera of the remaining two genera, ''Mycale ''and ''Phlyctaenopora:
''
*Genus ''
Mycale''
Gray, 1867
**
''s''ubgenus '' Mycale (Aegogropila)'' Gray, 1867 - About 37 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Anomomycale)''
Topsent, 1924 - Monotypic.
***Species ''
Mycale (Anomomycale) titubans''
(Schmidt, 1870)
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Arenochalina)''
Lendenfeld, 1887 - About 13 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Carmia)''
Gray, 1867 - About 46 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Grapelia)''
Gray, 1867 - About 9 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Mycale)''
Gray, 1867 - About 45 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Naviculina)''
Gray, 1867 - About 11 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Oxymycale)''
Hentschel, 1929 - About 9 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Paresperella)
Mycale (). also Mykale and Mykali ( grc, Μυκάλη, ''Mykálē''), called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı (Dilek Peninsula) in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander an ...
''
Dendy, 1905 - About 18 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Rhaphidotheca)
Mycale (). also Mykale and Mykali ( grc, Μυκάλη, ''Mykálē''), called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı (Dilek Peninsula) in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander an ...
''
Kent, 1870 - About 4 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Zygomycale)
Mycale (). also Mykale and Mykali ( grc, Μυκάλη, ''Mykálē''), called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı (Dilek Peninsula) in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander an ...
''
Topsent, 1931 - About 3 species.
**Unallocated ''Mycale'': About 33 species.
*Genus ''
Phlyctaenopora''
Topsent, 1904
**Subgenus ''
Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia)''
Dendy, 1922 - 2 species.
***Species ''
Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia) bocagei''
Lévi & Lévi, 1983
***Species ''
Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia) primitiva''
(Dendy, 1922)
**Subgenus ''
Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora)''
Topsent, 1904 - 2 species.
***Species ''
Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora) bitorquis''
Topsent, 1904
***Species ''
Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora) halichondrioides''
van Soest & Stentoft, 1988
References
Poecilosclerida
{{demosponge-stub
Demospongiae
Sponge families