Deep-Sea taxon details
Calthropella (Calthropella) Sollas, 1888
555788 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:555788)
accepted
Subgenus
Calthropella simplex Sollas, 1888 represented as Calthropella (Calthropella) simplex Sollas, 1888 (type by monotypy)
Pachastrissa Lendenfeld, 1903 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Calthropella Sollas, 1888) Sollas, W.J. (1888). Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 25 (part 63): 1-458, pl. 1-44, 1 map., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-63/htm/doc.html
page(s): 107 [details]
page(s): 107 [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Calthropella (Calthropella) Sollas, 1888. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555788 on 2026-09-07
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Calthropella (Calthropella) Sollas, 1888. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555788 on 2026-09-07
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original description
(of Pachastrissa Lendenfeld, 1903) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1903). Porifera. Tetraxonia. pp. vi-xv, 1-168. <em>In: Schulze, Franz Eilhard (Ed.), Das Tierreich. 19. (Friedländer: Berlin).</em> [details]
original description (of Calthropella Sollas, 1888) Sollas, W.J. (1888). Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 25 (part 63): 1-458, pl. 1-44, 1 map., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-63/htm/doc.html
page(s): 107 [details]
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). <em>Zookeys.</em> 68: 1-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.68.729 [details]
original description (of Calthropella Sollas, 1888) Sollas, W.J. (1888). Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 25 (part 63): 1-458, pl. 1-44, 1 map., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-63/htm/doc.html
page(s): 107 [details]
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). <em>Zookeys.</em> 68: 1-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.68.729 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
