Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida

Syconidae Poléjaeff, 1883

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Sycettidae*	Dendy, 1893	synonym

Children

Sycetta Haeckel, 1872
Sycon Risso, 1827

Literature

original description	Poléjaeff, N. (1883). Report on the Calcarea dredged by H.M.S.'Challenger' during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger', 1873–76. Zoology. 8 (2): 1-76, pl. I-IX.
status source	Sanamyan, K.; Sanamyan, N. (2021). Notes on nomenclature of Sycetta Haeckel, 1872 and reinstating the family Syconidae Poléjaeff, 1883 (Calcarea, Porifera). Zootaxa. 5067(1): 149-150.

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. Syconidae Poléjaeff, 1883. 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:1447711