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Polytholosia

Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Verticillitidae

Taxonomy
Polytholosia is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Calcarea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Polytholosiinae by Finks et al. (2004).

Species
Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Polytholosia Sepkoski
2004Polytholosia Finks et al. p. 719

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
orderVerticillitida
RankNameAuthor
familyVerticillitidaeSteinmann 1882
subfamilyPolytholosiinaeSenowbari-Daryan 1990
genusPolytholosia

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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Polytholosia gemina Waagen and Wentzel 1888
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available