WoRMS taxon details
Caulospongia Kent, 1871
AphiaID: 170746
AphiaID: 170746
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Suberitidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Caulospongia verticillata Kent, 1871 (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Suberitidae Schmidt, 1870 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Plectodendron Lendenfeld, 1888 (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Kent, W. Saville 1871. On a new Genus of Sponges from North Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 615-616, pl. XLVIII. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Suberitidae. In: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of the sponges (in 2 volumes). Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York: 1-1708, i-xlviii. [details] basis of record: Fromont, J. 1998b. Revision of the marine sponge genus Caulospongia Saville Kent, 1871 (Demospongiae: Hadromerida). Part 1. Morphological and skeletal characters. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19:65-89. [details] [full text] from synonym: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London): i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Caulospongia amplexa Fromont, 1998 Species Caulospongia biflabellata Fromont, 1998 Species Caulospongia elegans (Lendenfeld, 1888) Species Caulospongia pennatula (Lamarck, 1814) Species Caulospongia perfoliata (Lamarck, 1814) Species Caulospongia plicata Kent, 1871 Species Caulospongia reticulata Fromont, 1998 Species Caulospongia venosa Fromont, 1998 Species Caulospongia verticillata Kent, 1871 accepted as Caulospongia perfoliata (Lamarck, 1814) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Burton (1930d) assigned Caulospongia plicata as type species of the genus, but he overlooked that earlier, Hallmann, 1914 had already assigned Caulospongia verticillata as type species. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170746 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Caulospongia Kent, 1871. 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=170746 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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