Hamacantha

Familia: Hamacanthidae
Genus:
Subgenera (3): H. (Hamacantha) – H. (Vomerula) – H. (Zygherpe)
Species incertae sedis (†1): †H. huttoni

Hamacantha Gray, 1867: 538

• Type species: Halichondria johnstoni Bowerbank, 1864, by monotypy.

• Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the descriptions of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492–558. BHL Reference page. 

• Hajdu, E. & Castello-Branco, C. 2014. Hamacantha (Hamacantha) boomerang sp. nov. from deep-sea coral mounds at Campos Basin, SW Atlantic, and redescription of H. (H.) schmidtii (Carter, 1882) (Hamacanthidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae). Zootaxa 3753(4): 384–390. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.4.7 Reference page. 
• Hajdu, E., Hooker, Y. & Willenz, P. 2015. New Hamacantha from Peru and resurrection of Zygherpe as subgenus (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Hamacanthidae). Zootaxa 3926(1): 87–99. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.3 Reference page. 
• Lehnert, H. & Stone, R.P. 2016. A comprehensive inventory of the Gulf of Alaska sponge fauna with the description of two new species and geographic range extensions. Zootaxa 4144(3): 365–382. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.5 Reference page. 
• Castello-Branco, C. & Hajdu, E. 2018. Two new Hamacantha (Vomerula) from the Rio Grande Rise (SW Atlantic) (Hamacanthidae, Porifera). Pp 69–77 In Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & de Voogd, N.J. (eds.). Deep Sea and Cave Sponges. Zootaxa 4466(1): 1–237. Reference page.  Zootaxa 4466(1): 69–77. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.8 Reference page. 
• Ise, Y., Woo, S.P., Tan, S.H. & Fujita, F. 2019. First record of Hamacantha (Porifera, Demospongiae, Merliida, Hamacanthidae) from Japan, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4657(3): 474–482. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.3 Reference page. 

• Hamacantha in the World Register of Marine Species