Microcionidae
Family of sponges
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Microcionidae is a family of marine demosponges.[1]
| Microcionidae | |
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| Holopsamma arborea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Poecilosclerida |
| Family: | Microcionidae Carter, 1875 |
| Genera | |
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Subdivisions
The following genera are recognized within the family Microcionidae:[2]
- Subfamily Microcioninae Carter 1875
- Clathria Schmidt, 1862
- Echinochalina Thiele, 1903
- Holopsamma Carter, 1885
- Pandaros Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
- Subfamily Ophlitaspongiinae de Laubenfels, 1936
- Antho Gray, 1867
- Artemisina Vosmaer, 1885
- Echinoclathria Carter, 1885
- Ophlitaspongia Bowerbank, 1866
- Sigmeurypon Topsent, 1928
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