Synonyms

• Cometella Schmidt, 1870: 49 [nomen oblitum]
  • Type species: Cometella gracilior Schmidt, 1870, by subsequent designation of de Laubenfels (1936: 151).
• Helophloeina Topsent, 1928: 8 [valid as subgenus]
  • Type species: Helophloeina stylivarians Topsent, 1928, by monotypy.

Primary references

• Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig. iii–iv + 1–88, pls I–VI. GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Topsent, E. 1901. Spongiaires. Résultats du voyage du S.Y. ‘Belgica’ en 1897-99 sous le commandement de A. de Gerlache de Gomery. Expédition antarctique belge. Zoologie 4: 1–54, pls I–VI.
• Topsent, E. 1928. Notes sur Helophloeina stylivarians n.g. n.sp., Mycaline à desmes des Canaries. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique 533: 1–8.

• Laubenfels, M.W. de. 1936. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Vacelet, J. 2006. New carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) collected from manned submersibles in the deep Pacific. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 148(4): 553–584. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00234.x Reference page. 

• Kelly, M. & Vacelet, J. 2011. Three new remarkable carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Cladorhizidae) from deep New Zealand and Australian (Macquarie Island) waters. Zootaxa 2976(1): 55–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2976.1.4 Reference page. 

• Lopes, D.A., Bravo, A. & Hajdu, E. 2011. New carnivorous sponges (Cladorhizidae: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae) from off Diego Ramirez Archipelago (south Chile), with comments on taxonomy and biogeography of the family. Invertebrate Systematics 25(5): 407–443. DOI: 10.1071/IS11015 Reference page. 

• Lopes, D.A. & Hajdu, E. 2014. Carnivorous sponges from deep-sea coral mounds in the Campos Basin (SW Atlantic), with the description of six new species (Cladorhizidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae). Marine Biology Research 10(4): 329–356. DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2013.797587 Reference page. 

• Lundsten, L., Reiswig, H.M. & Austin, W.C. 2014. Four new species of Cladorhizidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the northeast Pacific. Zootaxa 3786(2): 101–123. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.2.1 Reference page. 

• Hestetun, J.T., Pomponi, S.A. & Rapp, H.T. 2016. The cladorhizid fauna (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Zootaxa 4175(6): 521–538. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.6.2 Reference page. 

• Hestetun, J.T., Vacelet, J., Boury-Esnault, N., Borchiellini, C., Kelly, M., Ríos, P., Cristobo, J. & Rapp, H.T. 2016. The systematics of carnivorous sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94(Part A): 327–345. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.022 Reference page. 

• Hestetun, J.T., Rapp, H.T. & Xavier, J.R. 2017. Carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Cladorhizidae) from the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge seamounts. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 137: 166–189. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.03.004 Reference page. 

• Hestetun, J.T., Tompkins-Macdonald, G. & Rapp, H.T. 2017. A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw022 Reference page. 

• Goodwin, C.E., Berman, J., Downey, R.V. & Hendry, K.R. 2017. Carnivorous sponges (Porifera : Demospongiae : Poecilosclerida :  Cladorhizidae) from the Drake Passage (Southern Ocean) with a description of eight new species and a review of the family Cladorhizidae in the Southern Ocean. Invertebrate Systematics 31(1): 37–64. DOI: 10.1071/IS16020 Reference page. 

• Ekins, M.G., Erpenbeck, D. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2020. Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition. Zootaxa 4774(1): 1–159. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4774.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Asbestopluma in the World Register of Marine Species

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