Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida > Subclass Hexasterophora

Hexactinosida Schrammen, 1912

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Order group names

*Hexactinosa*	Schrammen, 1903	synonym

Children

Dactylocalycidae Gray, 1867
Sceptrulophora Mehl, 1992

Literature

original description	Schrammen, A. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland. II. Teil. Triaxonia (Hexactinellida). Palaeontographica 5 (supplement): 177-385, pls XXV-XLV.
original description	Schrammen, A. 1903. Zur Systematik der Kieselspongien. Mitteilungen aus dem Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim 19: 1-21.
basis of record	Reiswig, H. 2002. Order Hexactinosida Schrammen, 1903. Pp. 1281. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).
additional source	Dohrmann,M.; Janussen,D.; Reitner,J.; Collins,A.G.; Wörheide, G. 2008 Phylogeny and evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) Systematic Biology 57(3):388–405.
additional source	Dohrmann, M.; Göcke, C.G.; Janussen, D.; Reitner, J.; Lüter, C.; Wörheide, G. 2011. Systematics and spicule evolution in dictyonal sponges (Hexactinellida: Sceptrulophora) with description of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1003-1025.

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Citation

Dohrmann, M.; van Soest, R. (2014). Hexactinosida. 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:171628