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''Citronia'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
sea sponge Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through th ...
s in the
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Dysideidae. It consists of one species, ''Citronia vasiformis'' (Bergquist, 1995).Bergquist, P. R. (1995). Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, and Verongida from the New Caledonia lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). ''Memoirs of the Queensland Museum'', 38(1), 1–51.


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Dictyoceratida Monotypic sponge genera Taxa named by Patricia Bergquist {{demosponge-stub