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  Class Hexactinellida

Subclass Hexasterophora

    Order Aulocalycoida
    Order Hexactinosida
    Order Lychniscosida
    Order Lyssacinosida

Taxon Information

The Subclass Hexasterophora is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Hexasterophora, "5 orders" (Hooper et al., 2011).

Bibliography

• Hooper, J.N.A., R.W.M. Van Soest & A. Pisera. 2011. Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness . Zootaxa 3148: 13–18. [Available online]

Web Pages

• World Porifera Database
• World Register of Marine Species