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

Forcepia (Leptolabis) Topsent, 1901

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Forcepia*	Carter, 1874	accepted genus name

Subgenus group names

*Leptolabis*	Topsent, 1901	basionym
*Clinolabis*	Topsent, 1927	synonym
*Leptolabis*	Topsent, 1901	synonym

Children

Forcepia (Leptolabis) apuliae (Sarà, 1969)
Forcepia (Leptolabis) assimilis (Lundbeck, 1910)
Forcepia (Leptolabis) brunnea (Topsent, 1904)
Forcepia (Leptolabis) convergens (Topsent, 1928)
Forcepia (Leptolabis) dentifera (Topsent, 1927)
Forcepia (Leptolabis) forcipula (Topsent, 1904)
Forcepia (Leptolabis) luciensis (Topsent, 1888)
Forcepia (Leptolabis) megachela (Maldonado, 1992)
Forcepia (Leptolabis) pustula (Fristedt, 1887)

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. 1901c. Eponges nouvelles des Açores. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France 14: 448-466.
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). Forcepia (Leptolabis) Topsent, 1901. 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:168882