Caulophacus

Caulophacus
	Caulophacus elegans, illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887).
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Hexactinellida
Order:	Lyssacinosida
Family:	Rossellidae
Subfamily:	Lanuginellinae
Genus:	Caulophacus; Schulze, 1886
Type species
	Caulophacus latus; Schulze, 1886
Subgenera
	Caulophacus (Caulodiscus); Caulophacus (Caulophacella); Caulophacus (Caulophacus); Caulophacus (Oxydiscus);

Caulophacus is a genus of glass sponges belonging to the subfamily Lanuginellinae.

Species

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulodiscus) Ijima, 1927

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacella) Lendenfeld, 1915

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacus) Schulze, 1886

Caulophacus abyssalis Tabachnick, 1990
Caulophacus adakensis Reiswig & Stone, 2013
Caulophacus agassizi Schulze, 1899
Caulophacus antarcticus Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910
Caulophacus arcticus (Hansen, 1885)
Caulophacus basispinosus Levi, 1964
Caulophacus chilensis Reiswig & Araya, 2014
Caulophacus cyanae Boury-Esnault & De Vos, 1988
Caulophacus discohexactinus Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
Caulophacus discohexaster Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
Caulophacus elegans Schulze, 1886
Caulophacus galatheae Levi, 1964
Caulophacus hadalis Levi, 1964
Caulophacus hyperboreus Koltun, 1967
Caulophacus instabilis Topsent, 1910
Caulophacus latus Schulze, 1886
Caulophacus miri Tabachnick, Menshenina & Ehrlich, 2023
Caulophacus oviformis (Schulze, 1886)
Caulophacus palmeri Goodwin, Berman, Janussen, Göcke & Hendry, 2016
Caulophacus pipetta (Schulze, 1886)
Caulophacus ramosus Reiswig, Dohrmann & Kelly, 2021
Caulophacus schulzei Wilson, 1904
Caulophacus scotiae Topsent, 1910
Caulophacus serpens Reiswig, Dohrmann & Kelly, 2021
Caulophacus subarcticus Tabachnick, Menshenina & Ehrlich, 2023
Caulophacus variens Tabachnick, 1988
Caulophacus wilsoni Kersken, Janussen & Martínez Arbizu, 2018 (interim unpublished)

Subgenus Caulophacus (Oxydiscus) Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004

Reiswig, H.M.; Araya, J.F. 2014: A review of the Hexactinellida (Porifera) of Chile, with the first record of Caulophacus Schulze, 1885 (Lyssacinosida: Rossellidae) from the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 3889 (3): 413–428, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.4

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