Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Haplosclerida > Family Callyspongiidae

Callyspongia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cacochalina*	Schmidt, 1868	synonym

Children

Callyspongia (Callyspongia) Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Callyspongia (Cladochalina) Schmidt, 1870
Callyspongia mollis (Schmidt, 1870)
Callyspongia septimaniensis Griessinger, 1971
Callyspongia subcornea (Griessinger, 1971)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ザラカイメン属

Literature

original description	Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
basis of record	Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. (2002). Family Callyspongiidae de Laubenfels, 1936. Pp. 835-851. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. (2002 [2004]). Family Callyspongiidae de Laubenfels, 1936. Pp. 835-851. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103.
additional source	Griessinger, J. M. (1971). Etude des Réniérides de Méditerranée (Démosponges Haplosclérides). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Zoologie). 3(3): 97-182.
additional source	Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 23-46.

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Callyspongia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131825