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

Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mycale*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Subgenus group names

*Protoesperia*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym
*Raphiodesma*	Bowerbank, 1874	synonym

Children

Mycale (Mycale) arctica (Fristedt, 1887)
Mycale (Mycale) lingua (Bowerbank, 1866)
Mycale (Mycale) longistyla Koltun, 1958
Mycale (Mycale) loveni (Fristedt, 1887)
Mycale (Mycale) massa (Schmidt, 1862)
Mycale (Mycale) toporoki Koltun, 1958
Mycale (Mycale) tylota Koltun, 1958

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. 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).

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867. 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:168621