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

Lycopodina cupressiformis (Carter, 1874)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lycopodina*	Lundbeck, 1905	accepted genus name
*Asbestopluma (Lycopodina)*	Lundbeck, 1905	synonym

Species group names

*Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) cupressiformis*	(Carter, 1874)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Hestetun, J.T.; Tompkins-Macdonald, G.; Rapp, H.T. (2017). A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181, 1-69.
additional source	Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9. 1-102.
additional source	Morozov, G.; Sabirov, R.; Zimina, O. (2019). Sponge fauna of the New Siberian Shoal: biodiversity and some features of formation. Journal of Natural History. 52 (47-48): 2961-2992.

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. Lycopodina cupressiformis (Carter, 1874). 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:863524