Max Walker de Laubenfels (1894–1960), U.S. spongiologist. Professor of Zoology, Oregon State College (now Oregon State University), Corvallis, Oregon.

Taxon names authored

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• 269 taxon names authored by Max Walker de Laubenfels

Publications

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• Laubenfels, M.W. de. 1936. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. Reference page. 
• Laubenfels, M.W. de 1951. The sponges of the Island of Hawaii. Pacific Science 5(3): 256–271. hdl: 10125/8859 Reference page. 
• Laubenfels, M.W. de 1954. The Sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: i–x, 1–306, pls I–XII. Reference page. 
• Laubenfels, M.W. de 1955. Porifera. Pp. E21–112. In: Moore, R.C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part E, Archaeocyatha and Porifera. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. DOI: 10.17161/tip.v0i0.5129 . Reference page.