Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Mycalina > Family Hamacanthidae > Genus Hamacantha

Hamacantha (Vomerula) Schmidt, 1880

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hamacantha*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Children

Hamacantha (Vomerula) azorica Topsent, 1904
Hamacantha (Vomerula) carteri Topsent, 1904
Hamacantha (Vomerula) falcula (Bowerbank, 1874)
Hamacantha (Vomerula) integra Topsent, 1904
Hamacantha (Vomerula) megancistra Pulitzer-Finali, 1978
Hamacantha (Vomerula) papillata Vosmaer, 1885

Literature

original description	Schmidt, O. 1880b. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Heft II. Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Abtheilung III. Tetractinelliden. Monactinelliden und Anhang. Nachträge zu Abtheilung I (Lithistiden). Pp. 33-90, pls V-X. In: Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake’. (Gustav Fischer:Jena).
basis of record	Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Hamacanthidae Gray, 1872. Pp. 665-668. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).
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.

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Hamacantha (Vomerula) Schmidt, 1880. 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:168428