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Staurocalyptus
Sign in to saveStaurocalyptus is a genus of sponge. It was circumscribed in 1897 by Isao Ijima.
Species
Round-Lipped Boot Sponge
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassHexactinellida
- OrderLyssacinosida
- FamilyRossellidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Rossellidae
- Collections
- USNM, SIO, CAS, MCZ, SBMNH, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, United States, Australia, Ecuador
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Encyclopedic overview
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Staurocalyptus is a genus of sponge. It was circumscribed in 1897 by Isao Ijima.
==Taxonomy== thumb|S. pleorhaphides Ijima circumscribed Staurocalyptus as a genus in the family Rossellidae. His initial taxonomy included three newly described species and two transferred from Rhabdocalyptus. Ijimi did not designate a type species; in 1967 V. M. Koltun designated Rhabdocalyptus dowlingi as the type species. A 2002 revision of Rossellidae by K. R. Tabachnick demoted Staurocalyptus to be a subgenus of Acanthascus and designated a new type species: Staurocalyptus glaber . However, , WoRMS still classifies Staurocalyptus as a genus and follows Koltun's type species designation, not that of Tabachnick.
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