Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Astrophorida > Family Calthropellidae > Genus Calthropella > Subgenus Calthropella (Calthropella)

Calthropella (Calthropella) geodioides (Carter, 1876)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Calthropella*	Sollas, 1888	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pachastrella geodioides*	Carter, 1876	basionym
*Pachastrissa geodioides*	(Carter, 1876)	basionym
*Calthropella geodioides*	(Carter, 1876)	synonym; alternate representation
*Pachastrella geodioides*	Carter, 1876	synonym
*Pachastrissa geodioides*	(Carter, 1876)	synonym

Literature

original description	Carter, H.J. 1876. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine’, chiefly in 1869 (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J.; De Voogd, N.J. 2010. Skeletons in confusion: a review of astrophorid sponges with (dicho-)calthrops as structural megascleres (Porifera, Demospongiae, Astrophorida). Zookeys 68: 1-88.

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Calthropella (Calthropella) geodioides (Carter, 1876). 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:555794