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
Order:	Lyssacinosida
Family:	Rossellidae
Subfamily:	Lanuginellinae
Genus:	Caulophacus Schulze, 1886[1]
Type species
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

• Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
• Ijima, 1903
• Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
• Tabachnick, 1990
• Schulze, 1904

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacella) Lendenfeld, 1915

• Lendenfeld, 1915

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacus) Schulze, 1886

• Tabachnick, 1990
• Reiswig & Stone, 2013
• Schulze, 1899
• Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910
• (Hansen, 1885)
• Levi, 1964
• Reiswig & Araya, 2014
• Boury-Esnault & De Vos, 1988
• Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
• Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
• Caulophacus elegans Schulze, 1886
• Levi, 1964
• Levi, 1964
• Topsent, 1910
• Schulze, 1886
• (Schulze, 1886)
• Goodwin, Berman, Janussen, Göcke & Hendry, 2016
• (Schulze, 1886)
• Wilson, 1904
• Topsent, 1910
• Tabachnick, 1988
• Kersken, Janussen & Martínez Arbizu, 2018 (interim unpublished)

Subgenus Caulophacus (Oxydiscus) Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004

• 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, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.4

External links[]

• Media related to Caulophacus at Wikimedia Commons

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