Caulophacus

Caulophacus is a genus of glass sponges belonging to the subfamily Lanuginellinae.

Caulophacus
Caulophacus elegans, illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Hexactinellida
Order:	Lyssacinosida
Family:	Rossellidae
Subfamily:	Lanuginellinae
Genus:	Caulophacus Schulze, 1886[1]
Type species
Caulophacus latus Schulze, 1886
Subgenera
Caulophacus (Caulodiscus) Caulophacus (Caulophacella) Caulophacus (Caulophacus) Caulophacus (Oxydiscus)

Caulophacus elegans, illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887).

Species

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulodiscus) Ijima, 1927

• Caulophacus brandti Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
• Caulophacus iocasicus Gong & Li, 2023
• Caulophacus leonieae Buskowiak & Janussen, 2021
• Caulophacus lotifolium Ijima, 1903
• Caulophacus onychohexactinus Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
• Caulophacus polyspicula Tabachnick, 1990
• Caulophacus valdiviae Schulze, 1904

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacella) Lendenfeld, 1915

• Caulophacus tenuis Lendenfeld, 1915

Subgenus Caulophacus (Caulophacus) Schulze, 1886

• Caulophacus abyssalis Tabachnick, 1990
• Caulophacus adakensis Reiswig & Stone, 2013
• Caulophacus agassizi Schulze, 1899
• Caulophacus antarcticus Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910
• Caulophacus arcticus (Hansen, 1885)
• Caulophacus basispinosus Levi, 1964
• Caulophacus chilensis Reiswig & Araya, 2014
• Caulophacus cyanae Boury-Esnault & De Vos, 1988
• Caulophacus discohexactinus Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
• Caulophacus discohexaster Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
• Caulophacus elegans Schulze, 1886
• Caulophacus galatheae Levi, 1964
• Caulophacus hadalis Levi, 1964
• Caulophacus hyperboreus Koltun, 1967
• Caulophacus instabilis Topsent, 1910
• Caulophacus latus Schulze, 1886
• Caulophacus miri Tabachnick, Menshenina & Ehrlich, 2023
• Caulophacus oviformis (Schulze, 1886)
• Caulophacus palmeri Goodwin, Berman, Janussen, Göcke & Hendry, 2016
• Caulophacus pipetta (Schulze, 1886)
• Caulophacus ramosus Reiswig, Dohrmann & Kelly, 2021
• Caulophacus schulzei Wilson, 1904
• Caulophacus scotiae Topsent, 1910
• Caulophacus serpens Reiswig, Dohrmann & Kelly, 2021
• Caulophacus subarcticus Tabachnick, Menshenina & Ehrlich, 2023
• Caulophacus variens Tabachnick, 1988
• Caulophacus wilsoni Kersken, Janussen & Martínez Arbizu, 2018 (interim unpublished)

Subgenus Caulophacus (Oxydiscus) Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004

• Caulophacus weddelli Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004

See also

• List of prehistoric sponge genera