Crella

Crella is a genus of marine demosponges in the family Crellidae.

Crella
Crella cyathophora in the Red Sea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Family: Crellidae
Genus: Crella
Gray, 1867[1]
Type species
Crella elegans
Schmidt, 1862
Species

many (59)

Subgenera
  • Crella (Crella) Gray, 1867
  • Crella (Grayella) Carter, 1869
  • Crella (Pytheas) Topsent, 1890
  • Crella (Yvesia) Topsent, 1890

Species
  • Crella acanthosclera (Lévi & Lévi, 1983)
  • Crella aceratospiculum (Carter, 1880)
  • Crella affinis (Brøndsted, 1924)
  • Crella akraleitae (Brøndsted, 1932)
  • Crella alba (Vacelet, 1969)
  • Crella albula (Bowerbank, 1866)
  • Crella atra (Topsent, 1890)
  • Crella aurantiaca Bertolino, Calcinai & Pansini, 2009
  • Crella basispinosa Burton, 1931
  • Crella beglingerae van Soest, 2009
  • Crella brasiliensis Moraes, 2011
  • Crella caespes (Ehlers, 1870)
  • Crella carnosa (Topsent, 1904)
  • Crella carteri Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
  • Crella chelifera van Soest, 1984
  • Crella commensalis Whitelegge, 1906
  • Crella compressa (Carter, 1886)
  • Crella crassa (Hentschel, 1914)
  • Crella cyathophora Carter, 1869
  • Crella digitifera (Lévi, 1959)
  • Crella dispar (Topsent, 1927)
  • Crella donsi Burton, 1931
  • Crella elegans (Schmidt, 1862)
  • Crella erecta (Lévi, 1963)
  • Crella fallax (Topsent, 1890)
  • Crella fristedti (Dendy, 1924)
  • Crella fusifera Sarà, 1969
  • Crella gelida (Lundbeck, 1910)
  • Crella gerzensteini (Swartschevsky, 1906)
  • Crella gracilis (Alander, 1942)
  • Crella guernei (Topsent, 1890)
  • Crella hanseni (Topsent, 1890)
  • Crella hennequinae Goodwin, Berman & Hendry, 2019
  • Crella incrustans (Carter, 1885)
  • Crella jaegerskioeldi Alander, 1937
  • Crella linguifera (Topsent, 1890)
  • Crella mammillata (Arnesen, 1903)
  • Crella mollior Topsent, 1925
  • Crella nodulosa Sarà, 1959
  • Crella novaezealandiae (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988)
  • Crella papillata (Lévi, 1958)
  • Crella papillosa (Schmidt, 1870)
  • Crella pertusa (Topsent, 1890)
  • Crella plana Picton & Goodwin, 2007
  • Crella polymastia (Thiele, 1903)
  • Crella pulvinar (Schmidt, 1868)
  • Crella pyrula (Carter, 1876)
  • Crella richardi (Topsent, 1890)
  • Crella ridleyi (Topsent, 1890)
  • Crella rosea (Topsent, 1892)
  • Crella rubiginosa (Schmidt, 1862)
  • Crella schottlaenderi (Arndt, 1913)
  • Crella shimonii Pulitzer-Finali, 1993
  • Crella sigmata Topsent, 1925
  • Crella spinulata (Hentschel, 1911)
  • Crella stylifera Hentschel, 1914
  • Crella topsenti (Babiç, 1922)
  • Crella triplex (Koltun, 1970)
  • Crella tubifex (Hentschel, 1914)
  • Crella ula (de Laubenfels, 1950)

References
  1. 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, pls XXVII-XXVIII
  • Data related to Crella at Wikispecies
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