Carteriospongia
Genus of sponges
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Carteriospongia is a genus of sea sponges in the family Thorectidae.
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| Carteriospongia cf. foliascens at Baa Atoll in the Maldives | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Dictyoceratida |
| Family: | Thorectidae |
| Subfamily: | Phyllospongiinae |
| Genus: | Carteriospongia Hyatt, 1877[1] |
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There is some debate around the taxonomy of the group, with a 2021 molecular and morphological assessment of the subfamily Phyllospongiinae suggesting that Carteriospongia should become a synonym of Phyllospongia, and reinstating Carteriospongia flabellifera to its original designation of Polyfibrospongia flabellifera.[2] The same study described 2 new species, designated Phyllospongia bergquistae sp. nov. and Polyfibrospongia kulit sp. nov..[2]
Species
- Carteriospongia contorta Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988
- Carteriospongia delicata Pulitzer-Finali, 1982
- Carteriospongia fissurella (de Laubenfels, 1948)
- Carteriospongia foliascens (Pallas, 1766)
- Carteriospongia mystica Hyatt, 1877
- Carteriospongia pennatula (Lamarck, 1813)
- Carteriospongia perforata Hyatt, 1877
- Carteriospongia silicata (Lendenfeld, 1889)
- Carteriospongia vermicularis (Lendenfeld, 1889)
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