Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Porifera - (Class) Hexactinellida - (Order) Lyssacinosida

Current position

Euplectellinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1867

Ref: R.W.M. van Soest et al.: [7 Mar 2015].

Alternative positions

Euplectellidae (Family) Gray, 1867	Ref: R.W.M. van Soest, 2001: 103.
Hexactinellida ([unranked]) Schmidt, 1870	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: table 2 (p. 439). [rough position]
Hexasterophora (Order) Schulze, 1887	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1975 (1971): 588. [inferred name]

Historical positions

Hexactinellida ([unranked]) Schmidt, 1870	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2012: table 2 (p. 439). [rough position]
Hexactinellida ([unranked]) Schmidt, 1870	Ref: S.M. Adl et al., 2005: 414.
Euplectellinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1867	Ref: R.M. Finks et al., 2004: table 1 (p. 804).
Euplectellidae (Family) Gray, 1867	Ref: R.W.M. van Soest, 2001: 103.
Euplectellinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1867	Ref: H.G. Hansson, 1999
Hexactinellida (Class) Schmidt, 1870	Ref: C. Nielsen, 1995
Hexasterophora (Subclass) Schulze, 1886	Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990
Porifera (Phylum) Grant, 1836	Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 168. [rough position]
Euplectellidae (Family) Gray, 1867	Ref: W.D. Hartman, 1982: 666.
Hexasterophora (Order) Schulze, 1887	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Hexasterophora (Order) Schulze, 1887	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1975 (1971): 588. [inferred name]
Fibrospongiæ (Class)	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 442. [rough position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

4s;3ss