Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Myxillina > Family Coelosphaeridae > Genus Coelosphaera > Subgenus Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera)

Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) tubifex Thomson, 1873

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Coelosphaera*	Thomson, 1873	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Histoderma appendiculatum*	Carter, 1874	basionym
*Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) appendiculata*	(Carter, 1874)	synonym
*Coelosphaera appendiculata*	(Carter, 1874)	synonym
*Coelosphaera tubifex*	Thomson, 1873	synonym; alternate representation
*Histoderma appendiculatum*	Carter, 1874	synonym

Literature

original description	Thomson, C.W. (1873). The Depths of the Sea. (Macmillan and Co.: London): 1-527.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. 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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Taxonomy

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External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) tubifex Thomson, 1873. 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:168846