Hemiasterella

Hemiasterella
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Tethyida
Family: Hemiasterellidae
Genus: Hemiasterella
Carter, 1879

Hemiasterella is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Hemiasterellidae.

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.

Species:

  • Hemiasterella affinis Carter, 1879
  • Hemiasterella ajax (de Laubenfels, 1950)
  • Hemiasterella aristoteliana Voultsiadou-Koukoura & van Soest, 1991
  • Hemiasterella bouilloni (Thomas, 1973)
  • Hemiasterella callocyathus (Sollas, 1888)
  • Hemiasterella complicata Topsent, 1919
  • Hemiasterella digitata Burton, 1929
  • Hemiasterella elongata Topsent, 1928
  • Hemiasterella intermedia Dendy, 1922
  • Hemiasterella magna Pulitzer-Finali, 1993
  • Hemiasterella strongylophora Lévi, 1956
  • Hemiasterella topsenti (Lévi & Lévi, 1983)
  • Hemiasterella typus Carter, 1879
  • Hemiasterella vasiformis (Kirkpatrick, 1903)
  • Hemiasterella verae Idan, Shefer, Feldstein & Ilan, 2021