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

Sceptrulophora Mehl, 1992

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Suborder group names

*Fieldingida*	Tabachnick & Janussen, 2004	synonym

Children

Aphrocallistidae Gray, 1867
Auloplacidae Schrammen, 1912
Euretidae Zittel, 1877
Farreidae Gray, 1872
Fieldingiidae Tabachnick & Janussen, 2004
Tretodictyidae Schulze, 1886

Literature

original description	Mehl, D. 1992. Die Entwicklung der Hexactinellida seit dem Mesozoikum. Paläobiologie, Phylogenie und Evolutionsökologie. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe E (Paläobiologie)Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe E (Paläobiologie) 2: 1-164, pls 1-22.
basis of record	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. (2014). Sceptrulophora. 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:605841