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Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) Thomson, 1873 
AphiaID: 168816

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Coelosphaeridae (Family) > Coelosphaera (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Subgenus
Typetaxon Coelosphaera tubifex Thomson, 1873 (type by monotypy)
Parent Coelosphaera Thomson, 1873
Synonymised
taxa
  Coelosphaericon Bakus, 1966 (junior synonym)
Histioderma Carter, 1886 (junior synonym)
Histoderma Carter, 1874 (preoccupied and junior synonym)
Naauna de Laubenfels, 1950 (junior synonym)
Sideroderma Ridley & Dendy, 1886 (preoccupied and junior synonym)
Siderodermella Dendy, 1922 (junior synonym)
Xytopsoocha de Laubenfels, 1936 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Thomson, C.W. (1873). The Depths of the Sea. (Macmillan and Co.: London): 1-527. [details]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

from synonym: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of Sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-306-47260-0. xix, 1-1101, 1103-1706 (2 volumes) pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Carter, H.J. 1886d. Supplement to the Descriptions of Mr.J. Bracebridge Wilson’s Australian Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 18: 271-290, 369-379, 445-466, pl. X. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Dendy, A. 1922b. Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S.‘Sealark’ in the Indian Ocean. Pp. 1-164, pls 1-18. In: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, Volume 7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2), 18(1). [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1950a. The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 27(1):1-154, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’. Annals and Magazine of Natural History(5) 18: 325-351, 470-493. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Carter, H.J. 1874a. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-sea Sponges and their Spicules from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine’, chiefly in 1869; with Figures and Descriptions of some remarkable Spicules from the Agulhas Shoal and Colon, Panama. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 14 (79): 207-221, 245-257, pls.XIII-XV. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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taxa

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 Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) antarctica Koltun, 1976
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) biclavata (Priest, 1881)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) bullata Lévi, 1993
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) calcifera (Burton, 1934)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) chondroida Lévi, 1993
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) crumena Pulitzer-Finali, 1993
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) crusta Tanita & Hoshino, 1989
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) dichela Hentschel, 1912
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) encrusta (Kumar, 1925)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) fistula Little, 1963
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) fucoides (Topsent, 1897)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) globosa Bergquist, 1961
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) gracilis (Hentschel, 1912)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) hatchi (Bakus, 1966)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) hechteli van Soest, 1984
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) macrosigma (Topsent, 1890)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) navicelligera (Ridley, 1884)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) oglalai Lehnert, Stone & Heimler, 2006
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) pedicellata Lévi, 1993
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) peltata (Topsent, 1904)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) phlyctenodes (Carter, 1876)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) physa (Schmidt, 1875)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) picoensis Topsent, 1928
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) polymasteides (Carter, 1886)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) ramosa (Dendy, 1922)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) raphidifera (Topsent, 1889)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) raphidifera Hechtel, 1969
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) solenoidea (Lévi, 1964)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) transiens Bergquist & Fromont, 1988
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) tubifex Thomson, 1873
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) tunicata (Schmidt, 1870)
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) verrucosa (Carter, 1886)

Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) appendiculata (Carter, 1874) accepted as Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) tubifex Thomson, 1873
Species Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) natalensis (Kirkpatrick, 1903) accepted as Histodermella natalensis (Kirkpatrick, 1903)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168816
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-12-12 18:42:22Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2010-04-09 18:28:10Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) Thomson, 1873. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=168816 on 2013-05-22
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