Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Poecilosclerida > Family Mycalidae > Genus Mycale

Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) Kent, 1870

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Rhaphidotheca Kent, 1870

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mycale*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Subgenus group names

*Gomphostegia*	Topsent, 1896	synonym
*Mycale (Gomphostegia)*	Topsent, 1896	synonym

Children

Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) ernsti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) loricata (Topsent, 1896)
Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) marshallhalli (Kent, 1870)

Literature

original description	Kent, W. Saville. (1870). On two new Siliceous Sponges taken in the late Dredging-Expedition of the Yacht 'Norma' off the Coasts of Spain and Portugal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 6(33): 217-224, pl. XV.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. (2002 [2004]). Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 + xlviii. 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	Bukry, D. 1979. Coccolith and silicoflagellate stratigraphy, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Reykjanes Ridge Deep Sea Drilling project Leg 49. Deep Sea Drilling Project Initial Reports 49 (18): 551-581.

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. Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) Kent, 1870. 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:132139