Corbitella

Corbitella

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lyssacinosida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Hexactinellida Subclassis: Hexasterophora Ordo: Lyssacinosida

Familia: Euplectellidae
Subfamilia: Corbitellinae
Genus: Corbitella
Species (7): C. discasterosa – C. elegans – C. inopiosa – C. plagiariorum – C. polyacantha – C. pulchra – C. speciosa

Name

Corbitella Gray, 1867: 530

• Type species: Alcyoncellum speciosum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Eudictyon Marshall, 1875: 211
  • Type locality: Eudictyon elegans Marshall, 1875, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the descriptions of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492–558. BHL Reference page. 
• Marshall, W. 1875. Untersuchungen über Hexactinelliden. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 25 (Supplement 2): 142–243, pls. XI–XVII. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Reiswig, H.M. & Kelly, M. 2018. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Euplectellid glass sponges (Hexactinellida, Lyssacinosida, Euplectellidae). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 130: 1–170. ISBN 978-0-473-39714-2 Reference page. 
• Kou, Q., Gong, L. & Li, X. 2018. A new species of the deep-sea spongicolid genus Spongicoloides (Crustacea, Decapoda, Stenopodidea) and a new species of the glass sponge genus Corbitella (Hexactinellida, Lyssacinosida, Euplectellidae) from a seamount near the Mariana Trench, with a novel commensal relationship between the two genera. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 135: 88–107. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.03.006 Reference page. 

Links

• Corbitella in the World Register of Marine Species