Halichondriidae
Family of sponges
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Halichondriidae is a family of sea sponges belonging to the order Suberitida.[2][3] These sponges have a skeleton consisting of dense bundles of spicules occurring in a more or less random pattern.
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| Halichondria panicea | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Suberitida |
| Family: | Halichondriidae Gray, 1867[1] |
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Genera
The following genera are recognised in the family Halichondriidae:
- Amorphinopsis Carter, 1887
- Axinyssa Lendenfeld, 1897
- Ciocalapata Laubenfels, 1936
- Ciocalypta Bowerbank, 1862
- Cryptax de Laubenfels, 1954
- Epipolasis Laubenfels, 1936
- Halichondria Fleming, 1828
- Hymeniacidon Bowerbank, 1858
- Johannesia Gerasimova, Erpenbeck & Plotkin, 2008
- Laminospongia Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
- Sarcomella Schmidt, 1868
- Semisuberites Carter, 1877
- Spongosorites Topsent, 1896
- Topsentia Berg, 1899
- Vosmaeria Fristedt, 1885
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