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Phakellia

Phakellia is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Bubaridae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

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Phakellia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Bubarida
Family: Bubaridae
Genus: Phakellia
Bowerbank, 1862
Species

34 species (see text)

Phakellia is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Bubaridae.1 The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.2

Species

The genus contains the following species:1

  • Phakellia atypica Lévi, 1961
  • Phakellia bettinae Lehnert & van Soest, 1999
  • Phakellia carduus (Lamarck, 1814)
  • Phakellia columnata (Burton, 1928)
  • Phakellia connexiva Ridley & Dendy, 1887
  • Phakellia crassistylifera Dendy, 1905
  • Phakellia crateriformis (Pallas, 1766)
  • Phakellia dalli Lambe, 1895
  • Phakellia elegans Thiele, 1898
  • Phakellia flabellata Carter, 1885
  • Phakellia foliacea Thiele, 1898
  • Phakellia folium Schmidt, 1870
  • Phakellia fusca Thiele, 1898
  • Phakellia hirondellei Topsent, 1890
  • Phakellia hooperi Desqueyroux-Faúndez & van Soest, 1997
  • Phakellia izuensis Tanita & Hoshino, 1989
  • Phakellia labellum (Lamarck, 1814)
  • Phakellia lambei Topsent, 1913
  • Phakellia lamelligera Wilson, 1904
  • Phakellia multiformis Whitelegge, 1907
  • Phakellia palmata Row, 1911
  • Phakellia paupera Thiele, 1898
  • Phakellia perforata Thiele, 1898
  • Phakellia pygmaea Thiele, 1898
  • Phakellia radiata (Dendy, 1916)
  • Phakellia robusta Bowerbank, 1866
  • Phakellia rubra Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019
  • Phakellia stelliderma Lévi & Lévi, 1989
  • Phakellia stipitata (Carter, 1881)
  • Phakellia stuartridleyi Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Phakellia sur Carvalho, Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Hajdu, 2007
  • Phakellia symmetrica Dendy, 1905
  • Phakellia tropicalis Alvarez & Hooper, 2009
  • Phakellia ventilabrum (Linnaeus, 1767)
References

References

  1. Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J, eds. (2022). "Phakellia Bowerbank, 1862". World Porifera Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  2. "Phakellia Bowerbank, 1862". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 9 June 2021.