Calthropella

Familia: Calthropellidae
Genus:
Subgenera (3): C. (Calthropella) – C. (Corticellopsis) – C. (Pachataxa)

Overview of species (12): C. durissima – C. enigmatica – C. geodioides – C. inopinata – C. lithistina – C. novaezealandiae – C. pathologica – C. pyrifera – C. recondita – C. simplex – C. stelligera – C. xavierae

Calthropella Sollas, 1888: 107

• Type species: Calthropella simplex Sollas, 1888, by monotypy.

• Pachastrissa Lendenfeld, 1903: 80 [synonymised by Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd (2010: 55)]
  • Type species: Pachastrella geodioides Carter, 1876, by original designation.

• Pachataxa de Laubenfels, 1936: 179 [synonymised by Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd (2010: 5); valid as subgenus]
  • Type species: Pachastrella lithistina Schmidt, 1880, by original designation.

• Corticellopsis Bergquist, 1968: 62 [synonymised by Van Soest, Beglinger & De Voogd (2010: 5); valid as subgenus]
  • Type species: Corticium stelligerum Schmidt, 1868, by monotypy.

• Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 25(part 63): I–CLXVIII + 1–458, pl. 1–44. BHL Reference page. 
• Lendenfeld, R. von 1903. Porifera. Tetraxonia. pp. vi–xv, 1–168 In: Schulze, F.E. (ed.). Das Tierreich. 19 Lieferung. von R. Friedländer und Sohn: Berlin. BHL Reference page. 
• Laubenfels, M.W. de. 1936. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. BHL Reference page. 
• Bergquist, P.R. 1968. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae. Part 1. (Tetractinomorpha and Lithistida). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 37: 1–105. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Van Soest, R.W.M., Beglinger, E., De Voogd, N.J. 2010. Skeletons in confusion: a review of astrophorid sponges with (dicho–)calthrops as structural megascleres (Porifera, Demospongiae, Astrophorida). ZooKeys 68: 1–88. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.68.729 Reference page. 

• Van Soest, R.W.M. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Calthropellidae Lendenfeld, 1906. Pp. 127–133 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 

• Calthropella in the World Register of Marine Species