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Molengraaffia

Demospongiae - Agelasida - Auriculospongiidae

Taxonomy
Molengraaffia was named by Vinassa de Regny (1915). It is not extant. Its type is Molengraaffia regularis.

It was synonymized subjectively with Acoelia by Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby (2015).

It was assigned to Porifera by Finks et al. (2004); to Auriculospongiidae by Senowbari-Daryan and Maurer (2008); and to Auriculospongiinae by Senowbari-Daryan (2005) and Amirhassankhani et al. (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Molengraaffia Vinassa de Regny
1991Acoelia Wu p. 57
1991Ramospongia Wu p. 59
2002Acoelia Sepkoski
2002Molengraafia Sepkoski
2004Acoelia Finks et al. p. 627
2004Molengraaffia Finks et al. p. 764
2005Molengraaffia Senowbari-Daryan p. 265
2008Molengraaffia Senowbari-Daryan and Maurer
2014Molengraaffia Amirhassankhani et al. p. 298

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
orderAgelasidaVerrill 1907
RankNameAuthor
familyAuriculospongiidae
subfamilyAuriculospongiinaeTermier and Termier 1977
genusMolengraaffiaVinassa de Regny 1915

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.

G. †Molengraaffia Vinassa de Regny 1915
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Molengraaffia regularis Vinassa de Regny 1915
Invalid names: Acoelia Wu 1991 [synonym], Molengraafia [replaced], Ramospongia Wu 1991 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available