''Anheteromeyenia'' is a genus of freshwater

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. It has been recorded in the

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, the Neotropics. This taxon was initially a subgenus of ''

Heteromeyenia ''Heteromeyenia'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Spongillidae. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of ...

'' when K. Schöder

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it in 1927, but W. M. de Laubenfels made it a genus in its own right in 1936. ,

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recognizes the following species: * '' Anheteromeyenia argyrosperma'' * ''

Anheteromeyenia cheguevarai ''Anheteromeyenia'' is a genus of freshwater sponge. It has been recorded in the Nearctic, the Neotropics. This taxon was initially a subgenus of ''Heteromeyenia'' when K. Schöder circumscribed it in 1927, but W. M. de Laubenfels made it a genu ...

'' * ''

Anheteromeyenia diamantina ''Anheteromeyenia'' is a genus of freshwater sponge. It has been recorded in the Nearctic, the Neotropics. This taxon was initially a subgenus of ''Heteromeyenia'' when K. Schöder circumscribed it in 1927, but W. M. de Laubenfels made it a genu ...

'' * '' Anheteromeyenia ornata'' * '' Anheteromeyenia vitrea''

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