Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Microcionina > Family Microcionidae

Ophlitaspongiinae de Laubenfels, 1936

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Antho Gray, 1867
Artemisina Vosmaer, 1885
Echinoclathria Carter, 1885
Ophlitaspongia Bowerbank, 1866

Literature

original description	Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. 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. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22.
status source	Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Microcionidae Carter, 1875. Pp. 432-468. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Ophlitaspongiinae de Laubenfels, 1936. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:167842