Cacospongia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dictyoceratida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Keratosa Ordo: Dictyoceratida

Familia: Thorectidae
Subfamilia: Thorectinae
Genus: Cacospongia
Species (12): C. amorpha – C. bakusi – C. carduelis – C. dokdoensis – C. hermanorum – C. intermedia – C. levis – C. mollior – C. mycofijiensis – C. ridleyi – C. serta – C. symbiotica

Name

Cacospongia Schmidt, 1862: 26

• Type species: Cacospongia mollior Schmidt, 1862, by subsequent designation of de Laubenfels (1936: 24).

References

Primary references

• Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig. i–viii + 1–88 pp., pls. I–VII. Full article (PDF). GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Laubenfels, M.W. de. 1936. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. Reference page. 

Links

• Cacospongia in the World Register of Marine Species