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

Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mycale*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Subgenus group names

*Mycale (Aegagropila)*	Gray, 1867	orthographic variant
*Esperella*	Vosmaer, 1887	synonym
*Esperia*	Nardo, 1833	synonym

Children

Mycale (Aegogropila) adhaerens (Lambe, 1893)
Mycale (Aegogropila) contarenii (Lieberkühn, 1859)
Mycale (Aegogropila) corrugata (Bowerbank, 1866)
Mycale (Aegogropila) dubia (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Mycale (Aegogropila) retifera Topsent, 1924
Mycale (Aegogropila) rotalis (Bowerbank, 1874)
Mycale (Aegogropila) syrinx (Schmidt, 1862)
Mycale (Aegogropila) tunicata (Schmidt, 1862)

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII.
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).
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	Topsent, E. (1924). Révision des Mycales de l'Europe occidentale. Annales de l'Institut océanographique. 1(3): 77-118.

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 (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867. 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:168517