Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida > Subclass Hexasterophora

Sceptrulophora Mehl, 1992

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

*Hexactinosa*	Schrammen, 1903	synonym
*Hexactinosida*	Schrammen, 1912	synonym

Children

Aphrocallistidae Gray, 1867
Auloplacidae Schrammen, 1912
Euretidae Zittel, 1877
Farreidae Gray, 1872
Fieldingiidae Tabachnick & Janussen, 2004
Sceptrulophora incertae sedis
Tretodictyidae Schulze, 1886

Literature

original description	Mehl, D. (1992). Die Entwicklung der Hexactinellida seit dem Mesozoikum. Paläobiologie, Phylogenie und Evolutionsökologie. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe E (Paläobiologie). 2: 1-164.
status source	Dohrmann, M.; Kelley, C.; Kelly, M.; Pisera, A.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Reiswig, H.M. (2017). An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Frontiers in Zoology. 14: 18.
status source	Dohrmann, M.; Göcke, C.G.; Janussen, D.; Reitner, J.; Lüter, C.; Wörheide, G. 2011. Systematics and spicule evolution in dictyonal sponges (Hexactinellida: Sceptrulophora) with description of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1003-1025.

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. Sceptrulophora. 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:605841