Rossellidae

Familia:
Subfamilia: (3): Acanthascinae – Lanuginellinae – Rossellinae

Rossellidae Schulze, 1885: 447

• Type genus: Rossella Carter, 1872.

• Lanuginellidae Gray, 1872: 450
• Asconematidae Gray, 1872: 458
• Crateromorphidae Gray, 1872: 137
• Caulophacidae Ijima, 1903: 78
• Sympagellidae de Laubenfels, 1936: 189

• Schulze, F.E. 1885. The Hexactinellida. Pp. 437–451. In: Tizard, T.H., Moseley, H.M., Buchanan, J.Y. & Murray, J. (Eds). Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger', 1873-1876. Narrative. Volume 1. First Part. Longmans Co.: London. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1872. Notes on the Classification of the Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 4 9(54): 442–461. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1872. On a new Genus of Hexaradiate and other Sponges discovered in the Philippine Islands by Dr. A.B. Meyer. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 4 10(56): 134–139. BHL Reference page. 
• Ijima, I. 1903. Studies on the Hexactinellida. Contribution III. (Placosoma, a New Euplectellid; Leucopsacidae and Caulophacidae). The Journal of the College of Sciences, Imperial University of Tokyo 18(1): 1–124, pls. I–VIII. 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. 

• Schulze, F.E. 1897. Revision des Systemes der Asconematiden und Rosselliden. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1: 520–558. BHL Reference page. 
• Ijima, I. 1904. Studies on the Hexactinellida. Contribution IV. (Rossellidae). The Journal of the College of Sciences, Imperial University of Tokyo 18(7): 1–307, pls. I–XXIII. BHL Reference page. 
• Tabachnick, K.R. 1999. Abolishment of the family Caulophacidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 603–605. BHL Reference page. 
• Tabachnick, K.R. 2002. Family Rossellidae Schulze, 1885. Pp. 1441–1505 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. 
• Dohrmann, M., Göcke, C., Reed, J. & Janussen, D. 2012. Integrative taxonomy justifies a new genus, Nodastrella gen. nov., for North Atlantic "Rossella" species (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Rossellidae). Zootaxa 3383(1): 1–13. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3383.1.1 Reference page. 
• Reiswig, H.M. & Stone, R.P. 2013. New glass sponges (Porifera: Hexactinellida) from deep waters of the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Zootaxa 3628(1): 1–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3628.1.1 Reference page. 
• Dohrmann, M., Kelley, C., Kelly, M., Pisera, A., Hooper, J.N.A. & Reiswig, H.M. 2017. An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Frontiers in Zoology 14: 18. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-017-0191-3 Reference page. 
• Reiswig, H.M., Dohrmann, M., Kelly, M., Mills, S., Schupp, P.J. & Wörheide, G. 2021. Rossellid glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from New Zealand waters, with description of one new genus and six new species. ZooKeys 1060: 33–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1060.63307 Reference page. 

• Rossellidae in the World Register of Marine Species

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