{{Short description|Genus of sponges}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Phakellia 600.jpg |image_caption = |taxon = Phakellia |authority = Bowerbank, 1862 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 34 species (see text) }}
'''''Phakellia''''' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Bubaridae.<ref name=WoRMS/> The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.<ref name="GBIF">{{cite GBIF |title=''Phakellia'' Bowerbank, 1862 |id=2240909 |access-date=9 June 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
==Species== The genus contains the following species:<ref name=WoRMS/> {{columns-list|colwidth=25em|1= * ''Phakellia atypica'' <small>Lévi, 1961</small> * ''Phakellia bettinae'' <small>Lehnert & van Soest, 1999</small> * ''Phakellia carduus'' <small>(Lamarck, 1814)</small> * ''Phakellia columnata'' <small>(Burton, 1928)</small> * ''Phakellia connexiva'' <small>Ridley & Dendy, 1887</small> * ''Phakellia crassistylifera'' <small>Dendy, 1905</small> * ''Phakellia crateriformis'' <small>(Pallas, 1766)</small> * ''Phakellia dalli'' <small>Lambe, 1895</small> * ''Phakellia elegans'' <small>Thiele, 1898</small> * ''Phakellia flabellata'' <small>Carter, 1885</small> * ''Phakellia foliacea'' <small>Thiele, 1898</small> * ''Phakellia folium'' <small>Schmidt, 1870</small> * ''Phakellia fusca'' <small>Thiele, 1898</small> * ''Phakellia hirondellei'' <small>Topsent, 1890</small> * ''Phakellia hooperi'' <small>Desqueyroux-Faúndez & van Soest, 1997</small> * ''Phakellia izuensis'' <small>Tanita & Hoshino, 1989</small> * ''Phakellia labellum'' <small>(Lamarck, 1814)</small> * ''Phakellia lambei'' <small>Topsent, 1913</small> * ''Phakellia lamelligera'' <small>Wilson, 1904</small> * ''Phakellia multiformis'' <small>Whitelegge, 1907</small> * ''Phakellia palmata'' <small>Row, 1911</small> * ''Phakellia paupera'' <small>Thiele, 1898</small> * ''Phakellia perforata'' <small>Thiele, 1898</small> * ''Phakellia pygmaea'' <small>Thiele, 1898</small> * ''Phakellia radiata'' <small>(Dendy, 1916)</small> * ''Phakellia robusta'' <small>Bowerbank, 1866</small> * ''Phakellia rubra'' <small>Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019</small> * ''Phakellia stelliderma'' <small>Lévi & Lévi, 1989</small> * ''Phakellia stipitata'' <small>(Carter, 1881)</small> * ''Phakellia stuartridleyi'' <small>Van Soest & Hooper, 2020</small> * ''Phakellia sur'' <small>Carvalho, Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Hajdu, 2007</small> * ''Phakellia symmetrica'' <small>Dendy, 1905</small> * ''Phakellia tropicalis'' <small>Alvarez & Hooper, 2009</small> * ''Phakellia ventilabrum'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1767)</small> }}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |title=''Phakellia'' Bowerbank, 1862 |year=2022 |id=131779 |db=Porifera |access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref> }}
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Category:Heteroscleromorpha Category:Sponge genera Category:Taxa named by James Scott Bowerbank Category:Taxa described in 1862
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