Pipestela

Pipestela
Pipestela candelabra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Axinellida
Family: Axinellidae
Genus: Pipestela
Alvarez, Hooper & van Soest, 2008
Type species
Pipestela candelabra
Alvarez, Hooper & van Soest, 2008
Species

5 species (see text)

Pipestela is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Axinellidae. The species of this genus are found in Australian waters, New Guinea and other countries to the north of Australia.

The genus was first described in 2008.

Species

This genus contains the following five species:

References

  1. 1 2 Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J, eds. (2022). "Pipestela Alvarez, Hooper & van Soest, 2008". World Porifera Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Pipestela Alvarez, Hooper & van Soest, 2008". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "Australian Faunal Directory: Pipestela". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. ↑ Alvarez, Belinda; Hooper, John Norman Ashby; R.W.M. Van Soest. (2008). "Pipestela, a new genus of Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Halichondrida) and description of three new species" (PDF). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 52 (2): 105-118 [107]. ISSN 0079-8835. Wikidata Q111097358. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for R.W.M. Van Soest.  (help)