Parent taxon: Demospongea according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Pestana 1960, Rigby and Desrochers 1995, Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 2015 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Agelasida, Atrochaetetes, Bauneia, Blastochaetetes, Burgundiidae, Ceractinomorpha, Chaetetida, Chondrosida, Choristida, Clavaxinellida, Consinocodium, Desmacellidae, Dictyonellidae, Guadalupiida, Hadromerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida, Hazeliidae, Hemiasterellidae, Heteroscleromorpha, Infexiostella, Janussenia, Karatubulus, Keratosa, Lovcenipora, Meandripetra, Metschnikowia, Monaxonida, Myxospongiae, Operculospongia, Paraaplysinofibria, Permosphincta, Petrosina, Poecilosclerida, Polymastidae, Ptychochaetetes, Raspailiidae, Riasanospongia, Scopalinidae, Spongillina, Spongiopsammia, Stelligeridae, Tabulospongida, Tetractinellida, Tetractinomorpha, Timeidae, Trachycladidae, Vauxiidae, Verticillitida
Subtaxa: Achrochordonia Anomocladina Bothoteca Callipelta Cupulina Gillettia Hippalimus Homophymia Lithistida wiedeyi Megalithistida Monalithistida Orchocladina Phymatellidae Psarodictyon Pyrogochonia Scleritodermidae Spirosclerophorida Tetralithistida
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder