Synonymy

• Hexactinosa Schrammen, 1903: 4 [original spelling]
• Hexactinosida — Reiswig, 2002: 1281 [emmended] (disused, not monophyletic)
• Aulocalycoida Tabachnick & Reiswig, 2000: 51 (disused, not monophyletic)

Primary references

• 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. 

• Schrammen, A. 1903. Zur Systematik der Kieselspongien (In German). Mitteilungen aus dem Roemer Museum 19: 1–21. Reference page. 

• Tabachnick, K.R. & Reiswig, H.M. 2000. Porifera Hexactinellida: On Euryplegma auriculare Schulze, 1886, and formation of a new order. in: Crosnier, A. (Ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 21. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie 184: 39–52. Reference page. 

• Reiswig, H.M. 2002. Order Hexactinosida Schrammen, 1903. Pp. 1281 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. 

Additional references

• Reiswig, H.M. & Kelly, M. 2011. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Hexasterophoran Glass Sponges of New Zealand (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Hexasterophora): Orders Hexactinosida, Aulocalycoida and Lychniscosida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 124: 1–146. ISBN 978-0-478-23292-9 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

• Hexasterophora in the World Register of Marine Species
• Hexasterophora – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.