{{Short description|Genus of sponges}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887) (14598081049).jpg | image_caption = ''Caulophacus elegans'', illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887). | taxon = Caulophacus | authority = Schulze, 1886<ref>Über den bau und das system der hexactinelliden. FE Schulze - 1886</ref> | type_species = ''Caulophacus latus'' | type_species_authority = Schulze, 1886 | subdivision_ranks = Subgenera | subdivision = * ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulodiscus'') * ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulophacella'') * ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulophacus'') * ''Caulophacus'' (''Oxydiscus'') }}
[[file:Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887) (14784740475).jpg|thumb|right|''Caulophacus elegans'', illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. (1887).]]
'''''Caulophacus''''' is a genus of glass sponges belonging to the subfamily Lanuginellinae.
== Species == Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulodiscus'') <small>Ijima, 1927</small> * ''Caulophacus brandti'' <small>Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004</small> * ''Caulophacus iocasicus'' <small>Gong & Li, 2023</small> * ''Caulophacus leonieae'' <small>Buskowiak & Janussen, 2021</small> * ''Caulophacus lotifolium'' <small>Ijima, 1903</small> * ''Caulophacus onychohexactinus'' <small>Tabachnick & Levi, 2004</small> * ''Caulophacus polyspicula'' <small>Tabachnick, 1990</small> * ''Caulophacus valdiviae'' <small>Schulze, 1904</small> Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulophacella'') <small>Lendenfeld, 1915</small> * ''Caulophacus tenuis'' <small>Lendenfeld, 1915</small> Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulophacus'') <small>Schulze, 1886</small> * ''Caulophacus abyssalis'' <small>Tabachnick, 1990</small> * ''Caulophacus adakensis'' <small>Reiswig & Stone, 2013</small> * ''Caulophacus agassizi'' <small>Schulze, 1899</small> * ''Caulophacus antarcticus'' <small>Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910</small> * ''Caulophacus arcticus'' <small>(Hansen, 1885)</small> * ''Caulophacus basispinosus'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> * ''Caulophacus chilensis'' <small>Reiswig & Araya, 2014</small> * ''Caulophacus cyanae'' <small>Boury-Esnault & De Vos, 1988</small> * ''Caulophacus discohexactinus'' <small>Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004</small> * ''Caulophacus discohexaster'' <small>Tabachnick & Levi, 2004</small> * ''Caulophacus elegans'' <small>Schulze, 1886</small> * ''Caulophacus galatheae'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> * ''Caulophacus hadalis'' <small>Levi, 1964</small> * ''Caulophacus hyperboreus'' <small>Koltun, 1967</small> * ''Caulophacus instabilis'' <small>Topsent, 1910</small> * ''Caulophacus latus'' <small>Schulze, 1886</small> * ''Caulophacus miri'' <small>Tabachnick, Menshenina & Ehrlich, 2023</small> * ''Caulophacus oviformis'' <small>(Schulze, 1886)</small> * ''Caulophacus palmeri'' <small>Goodwin, Berman, Janussen, Göcke & Hendry, 2016</small> * ''Caulophacus pipetta'' <small>(Schulze, 1886)</small> * ''Caulophacus ramosus'' <small>Reiswig, Dohrmann & Kelly, 2021</small> * ''Caulophacus schulzei'' <small>Wilson, 1904</small> * ''Caulophacus scotiae'' <small>Topsent, 1910</small> * ''Caulophacus serpens'' <small>Reiswig, Dohrmann & Kelly, 2021</small> * ''Caulophacus subarcticus'' <small>Tabachnick, Menshenina & Ehrlich, 2023</small> * ''Caulophacus variens'' <small>Tabachnick, 1988</small> * ''Caulophacus wilsoni'' <small>Kersken, Janussen & Martínez Arbizu, 2018</small> (interim unpublished) Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Oxydiscus'') <small>Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004</small> * ''Caulophacus weddelli'' <small>Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004</small>
== See also == * List of prehistoric sponge genera
== References == {{Reflist}} * Reiswig, H.M.; Araya, J.F. 2014: A review of the Hexactinellida (Porifera) of Chile, with the first record of Caulophacus Schulze, 1885 (Lyssacinosida: Rossellidae) from the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 3889 (3): 413–428, {{doi|10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.4}}
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Category:Hexactinellida genera Category:Taxa named by Franz Eilhard Schulze Category:Hexactinellida
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