Bolosominae Tabachnick, 2002

Shen, Chengcheng, Dohrmann, Martin, Zhang, Dongsheng, Lu, Bo & Wang, Chunsheng, 2019, A new glass sponge genus (Hexactinellida: Euplectellidae) from abyssal depth of the Yap Trench, northwestern Pacific Ocean, Zootaxa 4567 (2), pp. 367-378 : 369

Subfamily Bolosominae Tabachnick, 2002

Emended definition (after Tabachnick 2002): Basiphytose or rhizophytous Euplectellidae with peduncle.

Remarks: Although erection of a new subfamily for Rhizophyta gen. nov. would have been a possibility, we refrained from it because classification of euplectellids according to attachment mode is clearly artificial ( Dohrmann et al. 2017). We nevertheless retain the obviously paraphyletic Bolosominae (see below and Dohrmann et al. 2017) here for purely practical purposes, pending major revision or abolishment of euplectellid subfamily division.