Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida > Subclass Hexasterophora > Order Lyssacinosida

Rossellidae Schulze, 1885

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Caulophacidae*	Ijima, 1903	synonym
*Lanuginellinae*	Gray, 1872	synonym
*Rossellinae*	Schulze, 1885	synonym

Children

Anoxycalyx Kirkpatrick, 1907
Asconema Kent, 1870
Bathydorus Schulze, 1886
Caulophacus Schulze, 1886
Doconesthes Topsent, 1928
Lanuginella Schmidt, 1870
Lophocalyx Schulze, 1887
Mellonympha Schulze, 1897
Nodastrella Dohrmann, Göcke, Reed & Janussen, 2012
Rossella Carter, 1872
Schaudinnia Schulze, 1900
Scyphidium Schulze, 1900
Sympagella Schmidt, 1870
Trichasterina Schulze, 1900
Vazella Gray, 1870

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ツリガネカイメン科

Literature

original description	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).
basis of record	Tabachnick, K.R. (2002). Family Rossellidae Schulze, 1885. pp. 1441-1505. In: Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (2002) Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes) (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Tabachnick, K.R. (2002 [2004]). Family Rossellidae Schulze, 1885. pp. 1441-1505. In: Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (2002 [2004]) Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes) (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	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: 85-103.
additional source	Ijima, I. (1904). Studies on the Hexactinellida. Contribution IV. (Rossellidae). Journal of the College of Sciences, Imperial University of Tokyo. 18 (7): 1-307, pls I-XXIII.
taxonomy source	Tabachnick, K.R.; Menshenina, L.L.; Ehrlich, H. (2023). Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) from the Bering Sea and off Bering Island. Invertebrate Zoology. 20: 57-89.

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Rossellidae Schulze, 1885. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131694