Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Myxillina > Family Coelosphaeridae > Genus Coelosphaera

Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) Thomson, 1873

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Coelosphaera*	Thomson, 1873	accepted genus name

Subgenus group names

*Histoderma*	Carter, 1874	synonym

Children

Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) macrosigma (Topsent, 1890)
Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) peltata (Topsent, 1904)
Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) phlyctenodes (Carter, 1876)
Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) physa (Schmidt, 1875)
Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) picoensis Topsent, 1928
Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) tubifex Thomson, 1873
Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) tunicata (Schmidt, 1870)

Literature

original description	Thomson, C.W. (1873). The Depths of the Sea. (Macmillan and Co.: London): 1-527.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) Thomson, 1873. 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.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168816