Caulophacus | |
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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 [1] |
Type species | |
Caulophacus latus Schulze, 1886 | |
Subgenera | |
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Caulophacus is a genus of glass sponges belonging to the subfamily Lanuginellinae.
Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulodiscus) Ijima, 1927
Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacella) Lendenfeld, 1915
Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacus) Schulze, 1886
Subgenus Caulophacus (Oxydiscus) Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004