Oscarella

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{{Short description|Genus of sponges}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Oscarella lobularis - Schmidt, 1862.jpg

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| image_caption = Oscarella lobularis

| taxon = Oscarella

| authority = Vosmaer, 1884{{cite book |last1=Vosmaer |first1=Gualtherus Carel Jacob |author1-link=Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10799915 |title=Dr. H.G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild |date=2 October 1882 |lang=de |volume=II |page=145 |chapter=Porifera |access-date=2 October 2023 |archive-date=3 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003131956/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10799915#page/217/mode/1up |url-status=live }}

| type_species = Halisarca lobularis

| type_species_authority = Schmidt, 1862{{cite book |last1=Schmidt |first1=Oscar |author1-link=Eduard Oscar Schmidt |title=Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres |date=1862 |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourceget&id=8175 |access-date=1 October 2023 |publisher=Wilhelm Engelmann |location=Leipzig |language=de |archive-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315153128/https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourceget&id=8175 |url-status=live }}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| subdivision = see text

| synonyms =

• Octavella {{ill|Odette Tuzet|lt=Tuzet|de||fr||species||wikidata|Q36647982}} & {{ill|Jean Paris|lt=Paris|species||wikidata|Q108536604}}, 1963{{cite journal |last1=Tuzet |first1=Odette |last2=Paris |first2=Jean |title=OCTAVELLA GALANGAUI n. g. n. sp. DEMOSPONGIAE, OSCARELLIDAE, DE BANYULS-SUR-MER |journal=Vie et Milieu |date=1963 |pages=71–89 |url=https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02932120 |access-date=1 October 2023 |language=fr |archive-date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001210854/https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02932120 |url-status=live }} – unaccepted junior synonym
• Oscaria Vosmaer, 1881{{cite journal |last1=Vosmaer |first1=Gualtherus Carel Jacob |author1-link=Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer |title=Über Leucandra aspera H. nebst allgemeinen Bemerkungen über das Canalsystem der Spongien |journal=Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging |date=1881 |volume=5 |pages=144-166, pls. III-IV |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourceget&id=165122 |access-date=1 October 2023 |language=de |archive-date=3 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503181218/http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourceget&id=165122 |url-status=live }} – unaccepted (preoccupied)

| synonyms_ref =de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2023). World Porifera Database. Oscarella Vosmaer, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131979 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529125627/https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131979 |date=29 May 2023 }} on 1 October 2023

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File:Oscarella YPM IZ 087103.jpg

Oscarella is a genus of marine sponges. The genus can be found off the coast of every continent, in every ocean except the Arctic.