Rossellidae

Rossellidae
Rossella antarctica, 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 Schulze, 1885[1][2]
Subfamilies
Acanthascinae Schulze, 1897 Lanuginellinae Schulze, 1897 Rossellinae Schulze, 1885
Synonyms
Caulophacidae Ijima, 1903

Rossellidae is a family of glass sponges belonging to the order Lyssacinosa.

Ovreview of genera

• Acanthascus
• Anoxycalyx
• Aphorme
• Asconema
• Aulosaccus
• Bathydorus
• Calycosoma
• Caulophacella
• Caulophacus
• Crateromorpha
• Doconesthes
• Hyalascus
• Lanuginella
• Lanugonychia
• Lophocalyx
• Mellonympha
• Nodastrella
• Rossella
• Schaudinnia
• Scyphidium
• Sympagella
• Trichasterina
• Vazella
• Vitrollula

References

1. Ueber das Verhältnis der Spongien zu den Choanoflagellaten. Franz Eilhard Schulze 1885.
2. Schulze, F.E. 1885. The Hexactinellida. Pp. 437-451. In: Tizard, T.H., Moseley, H.M., Buchanan, J.Y. & Murray, J. (Eds), Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’, 1873-1876. Narrative, 1(1).

• Dohrmann, M. ; C. Göcke ; J. Reed & D. Janussen, 2012: Integrative taxonomy justifies a new genus, Nodastrella gen. nov., for North Atlantic "Rossella" species (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Rossellidae). Zootaxa 3383: 1-13.
• Sautya, S.; Tabachnick, K.R.; Ingole, B. 2010: First record of Hyalascus (Hexactinellida: Rossellidae) from the Indian Ocean, with description of a new species from a volcanic seamount in the Andaman Sea. Zootaxa, 2667: 64-68

External links

• Data related to Rossellidae at Wikispecies
• Media related to Rossellidae at Wikimedia Commons
• Rossellidae at the Encyclopedia of Life
  
• WoRMS. "Rossellidae". World Register of Marine Species.