{{Short description|Genus of sponges}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Forcepia (Forcepia) vansoesti.jpg |image_caption = ''Forcepia vansoesti'' |taxon = Forcepia |authority = Carter, 1874 }}
'''''Forcepia''''' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Coelosphaeridae.<ref name="GBIF">{{cite web |title=Forcepia Carter, 1874 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2241017 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=10 June 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.<ref name="GBIF" />
==Species== Species from this genus are divided into two subgenera.<ref name="worms">{{cite worms|author=van Soest, Rob W.M. |year=2020 |title=Forcepia |id=131921 |access-date=3 May 2025}}</ref>
*Subgenus ''Forcepia'': :*''Forcepia agglutinans'' {{small|Burton, 1933}} :*''Forcepia arenosa'' {{small|Hentschel, 1933}} :*''Forcepia azorica'' {{small|Lundbeck, 1905}} :*''Forcepia biceps'' {{small|(Carter, 1886)}} :*''Forcepia colonensis'' {{small|Carter, 1874}} :*''Forcepia crassanchorata'' {{small|Carter, 1885}} :*''Forcepia dendyi'' {{small|van Soest & Hooper, 2020}} :*''Forcepia elvini'' {{small|Lee, 2001}} :*''Forcepia fabricans'' {{small|Schmidt, 1874}} :*''Forcepia fistulosa'' {{small|van Soest, 2009}} :*''Forcepia forcipis'' {{small|(Bowerbank, 1866)}} :*''Forcepia foresti'' {{small|Lévi & Lévi, 1989}} :*''Forcepia fragilis'' {{small|Stephens, 1917}} :*''Forcepia grandisigmata'' {{small|van Soest, 1984}} :*''Forcepia groenlandica'' {{small|Fristedt, 1887}} :*''Forcepia hartmani'' {{small|Lee, 2001}} :*''Forcepia hymena'' {{small|(de Laubenfels, 1930)}} :*''Forcepia imperfecta'' {{small|Topsent, 1904}} :*''Forcepia japonica'' {{small|Koltun, 1959}} :*''Forcepia koltuni'' {{small|Lévi & Lévi, 1989}} :*''Forcepia lissa'' {{small|(de Laubenfels, 1954)}} :*''Forcepia lundbecki'' {{small|van Soest & Hooper, 2020}} :*''Forcepia macrostylosa'' {{small|Lee, 2001}} :*''Forcepia mertoni'' {{small|Hentschel, 1912}} :*''Forcepia minima'' {{small|van Soest, 2009}} :*''Forcepia psammophila'' {{small|(Cabioch, 1968)}} :*''Forcepia solustylota'' {{small|Hoshino, 1977}} :*''Forcepia stephensi'' {{small|Dendy, 1922}} :*''Forcepia thielei'' {{small|Lundbeck, 1905}} :*''Forcepia topsentii'' {{small|Lundbeck, 1905}} :*''Forcepia toxafera'' {{small|Cárdenas & Rapp, 2015}} :*''Forcepia trilabis'' {{small|(Boury-Esnault, 1973)}} :*''Forcepia vansoesti'' {{small|Lim, de Voogd, & Tan, 2012}} :*''Forcepia volsella'' {{small|Topsent, 1928}} *Subgenus ''Leptolabis'': :*''Forcepia acanthostylosa'' {{small|Lee, 2001}} :*''Forcepia apuliae'' {{small|(Sarà, 1969)}} :*''Forcepia assimilis'' {{small|(Lundbeck, 1910)}} :*''Forcepia australis'' {{small|(Lévi, 1963)}} :*''Forcepia bilabifera'' {{small|(Burton, 1935)}} :*''Forcepia brunnea'' {{small|(Topsent, 1904)}} :*''Forcepia convergens'' {{small|(Topsent, 1928)}} :*''Forcepia dentifera'' {{small|(Topsent, 1927)}} :*''Forcepia forcipula'' {{small|(Topsent, 1904)}} :*''Forcepia irritans'' {{small|(Thiele, 1905)}} :*''Forcepia luciensis'' {{small|(Topsent, 1888)}} :*''Forcepia megachela'' {{small|(Maldonado, 1992)}} :*''Forcepia microlabis'' {{small|van Soest, 2009}} :*''Forcepia pustula'' {{small|(Fristedt, 1887)}} :*''Forcepia tenuissima'' {{small|(Hentschel, 1911)}} :*''Forcepia uschakowi'' {{small|(Burton, 1935)}} :*''Forcepia vermicola'' {{small|Lehnert & van Soest, 1996}}
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Category:Demospongiae Category:Sponge genera