Deep-Sea taxon details
Sceptrulophora
605841 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:605841)
Mehl, 1992
accepted
Order
Hexactinosida · unaccepted (not monophyletic)
- Family Aphrocallistidae Gray, 1867
- Family Auloplacidae Schrammen, 1912
- Family Craticulariidae Rauff, 1893
- Family Euretidae Zittel, 1877
- Family Farreidae Gray, 1872
- Family Fieldingiidae Tabachnick & Janussen, 2004
- Family Pseudocribrospongiidae Tabachnick, 2025
- Family Tretodictyidae Schulze, 1886
- Family Uncinateridae Reiswig, 2002
- Family Sceptrulophora incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Mehl, D. (1992). Die Entwicklung der Hexactinellida seit dem Mesozoikum. Paläobiologie, Phylogenie und Evolutionsökologie. <em>Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe E (Paläobiologie).</em> 2: 1-164. [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. Sceptrulophora. 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=605841 on 2026-08-02
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Sceptrulophora. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605841 on 2026-08-02
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original description
Mehl, D. (1992). Die Entwicklung der Hexactinellida seit dem Mesozoikum. Paläobiologie, Phylogenie und Evolutionsökologie. <em>Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe E (Paläobiologie).</em> 2: 1-164. [details]
original description (of Hexactinosida) Schrammen, A. 1903. Zur Systematik der Kieselspongien. Mitteilungen aus dem Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim 19: 1-21. [details]
original description (of Hexactinosida) Schrammen, A. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland. II. Teil. Triaxonia (Hexactinellida). Palaeontographica 5 (supplement): 177-385, pls XXV-XLV. [details]
status 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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00753.x
note: Formal introduction as suborder of Hexactinosida. [details] Available for editors
status source Dohrmann, M.; Kelley, C.; Kelly, M.; Pisera, A.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Reiswig, H.M. (2017). An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). <em>Frontiers in Zoology.</em> 14: 18., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-017-0191-3
note: Elevation to ordinal status and abolishment of Hexactinosida. [details] Available for editors
original description (of Hexactinosida) Schrammen, A. 1903. Zur Systematik der Kieselspongien. Mitteilungen aus dem Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim 19: 1-21. [details]
original description (of Hexactinosida) Schrammen, A. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland. II. Teil. Triaxonia (Hexactinellida). Palaeontographica 5 (supplement): 177-385, pls XXV-XLV. [details]
status 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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00753.x
note: Formal introduction as suborder of Hexactinosida. [details] Available for editors
status source Dohrmann, M.; Kelley, C.; Kelly, M.; Pisera, A.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Reiswig, H.M. (2017). An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). <em>Frontiers in Zoology.</em> 14: 18., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-017-0191-3
note: Elevation to ordinal status and abolishment of Hexactinosida. [details] Available for editors
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 六放目 [from synonym] | [details] |
