Rossellidae

Rossellidae; Temporal range:
	Rossella antarctica, illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 : under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. 1887
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Hexactinellida
Order:	Lyssacinosida
Family:	Rossellidae; Schulze, 1885
Subfamilies
	Acanthascinae; Lanuginellinae; Rossellinae;

Rossellidae is a family of glass sponges belonging to the order Lyssacinosa. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution and is found at a large range of depths (8–6,770 m (26–22,211 ft), and likely deeper).^[5]

^ Botting, Joseph P.; Janussen, Dorte; Zhang, Yuandong; Muir, Lucy A. (September 2020). "Exceptional preservation of two new early rossellid sponges: the dominant species in the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota of China". Journal of the Geological Society. 177 (5): 1025–1038. doi:10.1144/jgs2020-002.
^ Botting, Joseph P.; Janussen, Dorte; Dohrmann, Martin; Muir, Lucy A.; Zhang, Yuandong; Ma, Junye (January 2025). "Advanced crown‐group Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) resembling extant taxa from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota". Papers in Palaeontology. 11 (1). doi:10.1002/spp2.70000.
^ Ueber das Verhältnis der Spongien zu den Choanoflagellaten. Franz Eilhard Schulze 1885.
^ Schulze, F.E. 1885. The Hexactinellida. Pp. 437-451. In: Tizard, T.H., Moseley, H.M., Buchanan, J.Y. & Murray, J. (Eds), Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’, 1873-1876. Narrative, 1(1).
^ Tabachnick, Konstantin R. (2002), Hooper, John N. A.; Van Soest, Rob W. M.; Willenz, Philippe (eds.), "Family Rossellidae Schulze, 1885", Systema Porifera, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 1441–1505, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_148, ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2

[1] Botting, Joseph P.; Janussen, Dorte; Zhang, Yuandong; Muir, Lucy A. (September 2020). "Exceptional preservation of two new early rossellid sponges: the dominant species in the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota of China". Journal of the Geological Society. 177 (5): 1025–1038. doi:10.1144/jgs2020-002.

[2] Botting, Joseph P.; Janussen, Dorte; Dohrmann, Martin; Muir, Lucy A.; Zhang, Yuandong; Ma, Junye (January 2025). "Advanced crown‐group Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) resembling extant taxa from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota". Papers in Palaeontology. 11 (1). doi:10.1002/spp2.70000.

[3] Ueber das Verhältnis der Spongien zu den Choanoflagellaten. Franz Eilhard Schulze 1885.

[4] Schulze, F.E. 1885. The Hexactinellida. Pp. 437-451. In: Tizard, T.H., Moseley, H.M., Buchanan, J.Y. & Murray, J. (Eds), Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’, 1873-1876. Narrative, 1(1).

[:0-5] Tabachnick, Konstantin R. (2002), Hooper, John N. A.; Van Soest, Rob W. M.; Willenz, Philippe (eds.), "Family Rossellidae Schulze, 1885", Systema Porifera, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 1441–1505, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_148, ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2

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Rossellidae Temporal range: ^[1]^[2]

Rossella antarctica, illustration in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 : under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. 1887
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Hexactinellida
Order:	Lyssacinosida
Family:	Rossellidae Schulze, 1885^[3]^[4]
Subfamilies
Acanthascinae Lanuginellinae Rossellinae