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

Oopsacas minuta Topsent, 1927

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oopsacas*	Topsent, 1927	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. (1927). Diagnoses d'Éponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert ler de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique Monaco. (502): 1-19.
original description	Topsent, E. (1928). Spongiaires de l'Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. [Atlantic and Mediterranean sponges from the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco]. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco. 74:1-376, pls I-XI.
basis of record	Boury-Esnault, N.; Vacelet, J. (1994). Preliminary studies on the organization and development of a hexactinellid sponge from a Mediterranean cave, Oopsacas minuta. In: van Soest, R.W.M., van Kempen, Th.M.G. & Braekman, J.-C. (Eds), Sponges in Time and Space. (Balkema: Rotterdam): 1-515. 407-415.
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	Bakran-Petricioli, T.; Vacelet, J.; Zibrowius, H.; Petricioli, D.; Chevaldonné, P.; Raa, T. (2007). New data on the distribution of the 'deep-sea' sponges Asbestopluma hypogea and Oopsacas minuta in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Ecology. 28 (Suppl. 1): 10–23.
ecology source	Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Harmelin, J.-G. (1994). Hexactinellid Cave, a unique deep-sea habitat in the scuba zone. Deep Sea Research I. 41: 965-973.
ecology source	Vacelet, J. (1996). Deep-sea sponges in a Mediterranean cave. In: Uiblein, F., Ott, J., Stachowitsch, M. (Eds), 1996: Deep-sea and extreme shallow-water habitats: affinities and adaptations. Biosystematics and Ecology Series. 11, 299-312.
ecology source	Harmelin, J.-G.; Vacelet, J. (1997). Clues to deep-sea biodiversity in a nearshore cave. Vie Milieu. 47 (4): 351-354.
biology source	Boury-Esnault, N. (2008). Le rôle de la silice dans la biosphère: l'exemple des spongiaires. Comptes rendus de Chimie. 11: 261-267.
biology source	Schenkelaars, Q.; Pratlong, M.; Kodjabachian, L.; Fierro-Constain, L.; Vacelet, J.; Le Bivic, A.; Renard, E.; Borchiellini, C. (2017). Animal multicellularity and polarity without Wnt signaling. Scientific Reports. 7 (15383): 1-21.
biology source	Santini, S.; Schenkelaars, Q.; Jourda, C.; Duchesne, M.; Belahbib, H.; Rocher, C.; Selva, M.; Riesgo, A.; Vervoort, M.; Leys, S. P.; Kodjabachian, L.; Le Bivic, A.; Borchiellini, C.; Claverie, J.-M.; Renard, E. (2023). The compact genome of the sponge Oopsacas minuta (Hexactinellida) is lacking key metazoan core genes. BMC Biology. 21 (139): 1-21.
biology source	Leys, S. P.; Kamarul Zaman, A.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2016). Three-dimensional fate mapping of larval tissues through metamorphosis in the glass sponge Oopsacas minuta. Invertebrate Biology. 135(3): 259-272.
biology source	Boury-Esnault, N.; Efremova, S.; Bézac, C.; Vacelet, J. (1999). Reproduction of a hexactinellid sponge; first description of gastrulation by cellular delamination in the Porifera. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development. 35 (3), 187–201.
biology source	Manuel, M.; Le Parco, Y.; Borchiellini, C. (2004). Comparative analysis of Brachyury T-domains, with the characterization of two new sponge sequences, from a hexactinellid and a calcisponge. Gene. 340(2): 291-301.
biology source	Pérez, T. (1996). La rétention de particules par une éponge hexactinellide, Oopsacas minuta (Leucopsacasidae): Le rôle du reticulum. (Particle uptake by a hexactinellid sponge, Oopsacas minuta(Leucopsacasidae): the role of the reticulum). Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. 319: 385-391.
biology source	Leys, S.P.; Cheung, E.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2006). Embryogenesis in the glass sponge Oopsacas minuta: formation of syncytia by fusion of blastomeres. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46(2): 104-117.
biology source	Schenkelaars, Q.; Fierro-Constain, L.; Renard, E.; Hill, A.L.; Borchiellini, C. (2015). Insights into Frizzled evolution and new perspectives. Evolution & Development. 17(2): 160-169.

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. Oopsacas minuta Topsent, 1927. 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:134408