Staurocalyptus

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Staurocalyptus
Amerikanische Hexactinelliden. Nach dem Materiale der Albatross-Expedition (1899) (18158651782) (Pl IX Fig 1).jpg
S. dowlingi
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S. glaber
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Hexactinellida
Order: Lyssacinosida
Family: Rossellidae
Subfamily: Acanthascinae
Genus: Staurocalyptus
Ijima, 1897
Type species
Rhabdocalyptus dowlingi
Lambe, 1893

Staurocalyptus is a genus of sponge. It was circumscribed in 1897 by Isao Ijima. [1]

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Taxonomy

S. pleorhaphides Ijima 1904 Pl 14 Fig 2 Staurocalyptus pleorhaphides.png
S. pleorhaphides

Ijima circumscribed Staurocalyptus as a genus in the family Rossellidae. His initial taxonomy included three newly described species and two transferred from Rhabdocalyptus. [1] Ijimi did not designate a type species; in 1967 V. M. Koltun designated Rhabdocalyptus dowlingiLambe, 1893 as the type species. A 2002 revision of Rossellidae by K. R. Tabachnick demoted Staurocalyptus to be a subgenus of Acanthascus and designated a new type species: Staurocalyptus glaberIjima, 1897. [2] However, as of 2017, WoRMS still classifies Staurocalyptus as a genus and follows Koltun's type species designation, not that of Tabachnick. [3]

Distribution

Its species are found in the Pacific Ocean, at a depth of 30–1,700 metres (98–5,577 ft). [2]

Species

As of 2017, WoRMS recognizes the following seventeen species: [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Ijima, I. (1897). "Revision of Hexactinellids with Discoctasters, with Descriptions of Five New Species". 日本動物學彙報 / Annotationes Zoologicæ Japonenses. 1: 53–59. BHL page 44286148.
  2. 1 2 Tabachnick, Konstantin R. (2002). "Family Rossellidae Schulze, 1885". In Hooper, John N. A.; Van Soest, Rob W. M. (eds.). Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Vol. 2. New York: Kluwer. pp. 1451–1453. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_148. ISBN   978-0-306-47260-2.
  3. 1 2 Dohrmann, M., van Soest, R. (2013). Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J (eds.). "Staurocalyptus Ijima, 1897". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 12 November 2017.

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