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
Subclass: Hexasterophora
Order: Lyssacinosa
Family: Rossellidae
Subfamily: Lanuginellinae
Genus: Caulophacus
Schulze, 1886[1]
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

See also

References

  1. Über den bau und das system der hexactinelliden. FE Schulze - 1886
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