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Polysiphospongia

Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Verticillitidae

Taxonomy
Polysiphospongia is a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Polysiphospongiinae.

It was assigned to Calcarea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Polysiphospongiinae by Finks et al. (2004) and Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby (2015).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Polysiphospongia Sepkoski
2004Polysiphospongia Finks et al. p. 724
2015Polysiphospongia Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby p. 391

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
orderVerticillitida
RankNameAuthor
familyVerticillitidaeSteinmann 1882
subfamilyPolysiphospongiinaeSenowbari-Daryan 1990
genusPolysiphospongia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available