''Calthropella'' is a genus of
sea sponge
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through t ...
s in the
order
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Tetractinellida
Tetractinellida is an order of sea sponges belonging to the Class Demospongiae. First described in 1876, this order received a new description in 2012 and replaced the two orders Astrophorida and Spirophorida, which then became sub-orders as A ...
. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Calthropellidae.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Calthropella:
* ''
Calthropella durissima''
Topsent, 1892
* ''
Calthropella geodioides''
(Carter, 1876)
* ''
Calthropella enigmatica''
(Lévi & Lévi, 1983)
* ''
Calthropella inopinata''
Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
* ''
Calthropella lithistina''
(Schmidt, 1880)
* ''
Calthropella novaezealandiae''
(Bergquist, 1961)
* ''
Calthropella pathologica''
(Schmidt, 1868)
* ''
Calthropella pyrifera''
van Soest, Beglinger & de Voogd, 2010
* ''
Calthropella recondita''
Pulitzer-Finali, 1972
* ''
Calthropella simplex''
Sollas, 1888
* ''
Calthropella stelligera''
(Schmidt, 1868)
* ''
Calthropella xavierae''
van Soest, Beglinger & de Voogd, 2010
References
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Tetractinellida
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