Forcepia

Forcepia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poecilosclerida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Poecilosclerida

Familia: Coelosphaeridae
Genus: Forcepia
Subgenera (2): F. (Forcepia) – F. (Leptolabis)

Name

• Forcepia Carter, 1874

Type species: Forcepia colonensis Carter, 1874, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Carter, H.J. 1874. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-sea Sponges and their Spicules from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine', chiefly in 1869; with Figures and Descriptions of some remarkable Spicules from the Agulhas Shoal and Colon, Panama. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 4, 14(79): 207–221, 245–257, pls. XIII–XV.

Links

• Forcepia in the World Register of Marine Species

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