Synonymy

• Coralliospongia Gray, 1867: 502 (in part)
• Vitrea Thomson, 1868: 118
• Hexactinellidae Schmidt, 1870: 13 [original spelling]
• Hyalospongiae Claus, 1872: 153 (in part)
• Sexradiatospongia Gray, 1874: 288
• Triaxonia Schulze, 1886: 36

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the descriptions of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492–558. BHL Reference page. 
• Thomson, C.W. 1868. On the “vitreous” sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 4 1: 114–132, pl. IV. BHL

• Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig. iii–iv + 1–88, pls I–VI. GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Claus, C. 1872. Grundzüge der Zoologie. Zum gebrauche an Universitäten und Höheren Lehranstalten sowie zum Selbststudium (Zweite vermehrte Auflage). N.G. Elwert'sche Universitäts-Buchshandlung: Marburg und Leipzig. 1170 pp.
• Gray, J.E. 1874. On the arrangement of sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 4 13: 284–290. BHL

• Schulze, F.E. 1886. Über den Bau und das System der Hexactinelliden (In German). Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1886: 1–97. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Mehl, D. 1992. Die Entwicklung der Hexactinellida seit dem Mesozoikum Paläobiologie, Phylogenie und Evolutionsökologie. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe E. Paläobiologie 2: 1–164.

• Reiswig, H.M. 2002. Class Hexactinellida Schmidt, 1870. Pp. 1201–1202 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 
• Reiswig, H.M. 2006. Classification and phylogeny of Hexactinellida (Porifera). Canadian Journal of Zoology 84(2): 195–204. DOI: 10.1139/z05-174

• Dohrmann, M., Janusse, D., Reitner, J., Collins, A.G. & Wörheide, G. 2008. Phylogeny and evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Systematic Biology 57(3): 388–405. DOI: 10.1080/10635150802161088 Reference page. 

• Dohrmann, M., Collins, A.G. & Wörheide, G. 2009. New insights into the phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): monophyly of Lyssacinosida and Euplectellinae, and the phylogenetic position of Euretidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52(1): 257–262. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.010 Reference page. 

• Dohrmann, M., Haen, K.M., Lavrov, D.V. & Wörheide, G. 2012. Molecular phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): increased taxon sampling and inclusion of the mitochondrial protein-coding gene, cytochrome oxidase subunit I. Hydrobiologia 687: 11–20. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0727-z Reference page. 

• Dohrmann, M., Kelley, C., Kelly, M., Pisera, A., Hooper, J.N.A. & Reiswig, H.M. 2017. An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Frontiers in Zoology 14: 18. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-017-0191-3 Reference page. 

Links

• Hexactinellida in the World Register of Marine Species
• Hexactinellida – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Hexactinellida – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.
• Hexactinellida - Tree of Life Web Project. 2008. Version 04 March 2008 (temporary)