Forcepia

Forcepia
Forcepia vansoesti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Poecilosclerida
Family:	Coelosphaeridae
Genus:	Forcepia Carter, 1874

Forcepia is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Coelosphaeridae.

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

Species

Species from this genus are divided into two subgenera.

• Subgenus Forcepia:

• Forcepia agglutinans Burton, 1933
• Forcepia arenosa Hentschel, 1933
• Forcepia azorica Lundbeck, 1905
• Forcepia biceps (Carter, 1886)
• Forcepia colonensis Carter, 1874
• Forcepia crassanchorata Carter, 1885
• Forcepia dendyi van Soest & Hooper, 2020
• Forcepia elvini Lee, 2001
• Forcepia fabricans Schmidt, 1874
• Forcepia fistulosa van Soest, 2009
• Forcepia forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866)
• Forcepia foresti Lévi & Lévi, 1989
• Forcepia fragilis Stephens, 1917
• Forcepia grandisigmata van Soest, 1984
• Forcepia groenlandica Fristedt, 1887
• Forcepia hartmani Lee, 2001
• Forcepia hymena (de Laubenfels, 1930)
• Forcepia imperfecta Topsent, 1904
• Forcepia japonica Koltun, 1959
• Forcepia koltuni Lévi & Lévi, 1989
• Forcepia lissa (de Laubenfels, 1954)
• Forcepia lundbecki van Soest & Hooper, 2020
• Forcepia macrostylosa Lee, 2001
• Forcepia mertoni Hentschel, 1912
• Forcepia minima van Soest, 2009
• Forcepia psammophila (Cabioch, 1968)
• Forcepia solustylota Hoshino, 1977
• Forcepia stephensi Dendy, 1922
• Forcepia thielei Lundbeck, 1905
• Forcepia topsentii Lundbeck, 1905
• Forcepia toxafera Cárdenas & Rapp, 2015
• Forcepia trilabis (Boury-Esnault, 1973)
• Forcepia vansoesti Lim, de Voogd, & Tan, 2012
• Forcepia volsella Topsent, 1928

• Subgenus Leptolabis:

• Forcepia acanthostylosa Lee, 2001
• Forcepia apuliae (Sarà, 1969)
• Forcepia assimilis (Lundbeck, 1910)
• Forcepia australis (Lévi, 1963)
• Forcepia bilabifera (Burton, 1935)
• Forcepia brunnea (Topsent, 1904)
• Forcepia convergens (Topsent, 1928)
• Forcepia dentifera (Topsent, 1927)
• Forcepia forcipula (Topsent, 1904)
• Forcepia irritans (Thiele, 1905)
• Forcepia luciensis (Topsent, 1888)
• Forcepia megachela (Maldonado, 1992)
• Forcepia microlabis van Soest, 2009
• Forcepia pustula (Fristedt, 1887)
• Forcepia tenuissima (Hentschel, 1911)
• Forcepia uschakowi (Burton, 1935)
• Forcepia vermicola Lehnert & van Soest, 1996

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