# Caulophacus
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{{Short description|Genus of sponges}}
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| 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](/source/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](/source/Franz_Eilhard_Schulze), 1886[Über den bau und das system der hexactinelliden.
FE Schulze - 1886]
| type_species = ''[Caulophacus latus](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Lanuginellinae).
== Species ==
Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulodiscus'') Ijima, 1927
* ''[Caulophacus brandti](/source/Caulophacus_brandti)'' Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
* ''[Caulophacus iocasicus](/source/Caulophacus_iocasicus)'' Gong & Li, 2023
* ''[Caulophacus leonieae](/source/Caulophacus_leonieae)'' Buskowiak & Janussen, 2021
* ''[Caulophacus lotifolium](/source/Caulophacus_lotifolium)'' Ijima, 1903
* ''[Caulophacus onychohexactinus](/source/Caulophacus_onychohexactinus)'' Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
* ''[Caulophacus polyspicula](/source/Caulophacus_polyspicula)'' Tabachnick, 1990
* ''[Caulophacus valdiviae](/source/Caulophacus_valdiviae)'' Schulze, 1904
Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulophacella'') Lendenfeld, 1915
* ''[Caulophacus tenuis](/source/Caulophacus_tenuis)'' Lendenfeld, 1915
Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Caulophacus'') Schulze, 1886
* ''[Caulophacus abyssalis](/source/Caulophacus_abyssalis)'' Tabachnick, 1990
* ''[Caulophacus adakensis](/source/Caulophacus_adakensis)'' Reiswig & Stone, 2013
* ''[Caulophacus agassizi](/source/Caulophacus_agassizi)'' Schulze, 1899
* ''[Caulophacus antarcticus](/source/Caulophacus_antarcticus)'' Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910
* ''[Caulophacus arcticus](/source/Caulophacus_arcticus)'' (Hansen, 1885)
* ''[Caulophacus basispinosus](/source/Caulophacus_basispinosus)'' Levi, 1964
* ''[Caulophacus chilensis](/source/Caulophacus_chilensis)'' Reiswig & Araya, 2014
* ''[Caulophacus cyanae](/source/Caulophacus_cyanae)'' Boury-Esnault & De Vos, 1988
* ''[Caulophacus discohexactinus](/source/Caulophacus_discohexactinus)'' Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
* ''[Caulophacus discohexaster](/source/Caulophacus_discohexaster)'' Tabachnick & Levi, 2004
* ''[Caulophacus elegans](/source/Caulophacus_elegans)'' Schulze, 1886
* ''[Caulophacus galatheae](/source/Caulophacus_galatheae)'' Levi, 1964
* ''[Caulophacus hadalis](/source/Caulophacus_hadalis)'' Levi, 1964
* ''[Caulophacus hyperboreus](/source/Caulophacus_hyperboreus)'' Koltun, 1967
* ''[Caulophacus instabilis](/source/Caulophacus_instabilis)'' Topsent, 1910
* ''[Caulophacus latus](/source/Caulophacus_latus)'' Schulze, 1886
* ''[Caulophacus miri](/source/Caulophacus_miri)'' Tabachnick, Menshenina & Ehrlich, 2023
* ''[Caulophacus oviformis](/source/Caulophacus_oviformis)'' (Schulze, 1886)
* ''[Caulophacus palmeri](/source/Caulophacus_palmeri)'' Goodwin, Berman, Janussen, Göcke & Hendry, 2016
* ''[Caulophacus pipetta](/source/Caulophacus_pipetta)'' (Schulze, 1886)
* ''[Caulophacus ramosus](/source/Caulophacus_ramosus)'' Reiswig, Dohrmann & Kelly, 2021
* ''[Caulophacus schulzei](/source/Caulophacus_schulzei)'' Wilson, 1904
* ''[Caulophacus scotiae](/source/Caulophacus_scotiae)'' Topsent, 1910
* ''[Caulophacus serpens](/source/Caulophacus_serpens)'' Reiswig, Dohrmann & Kelly, 2021
* ''[Caulophacus subarcticus](/source/Caulophacus_subarcticus)'' Tabachnick, Menshenina & Ehrlich, 2023
* ''[Caulophacus variens](/source/Caulophacus_variens)'' Tabachnick, 1988
* ''[Caulophacus wilsoni](/source/Caulophacus_wilsoni)'' Kersken, Janussen & Martínez Arbizu, 2018 (interim unpublished)
Subgenus ''Caulophacus'' (''Oxydiscus'') Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
* ''[Caulophacus weddelli](/source/Caulophacus_weddelli)'' Janussen, Tabachnick & Tendal, 2004
== See also ==
* [List of prehistoric sponge genera](/source/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}}
== External links ==
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