Myxilla

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Myxillidae
Genus: Myxilla
Subgenera (4): M. (Burtonanchora) – M. (Ectyomyxilla) – M. (Myxilla) – M. (Styloptilon)
Species incertae sedis (3): M. brunnea – †M. dendyi – M. funalis

Name

Myxilla Schmidt, 1862: 71

• Type species: Halichondria rosacea Lieberkühn, 1859, by subsequent designation of de Laubenfels (1936: 85).

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.