''Crella'' is a genus of marine
demosponge
Demosponges (Demospongiae) are the most diverse class in the phylum Porifera. They include 76.2% of all species of sponges with nearly 8,800 species worldwide (World Porifera Database). They are sponges with a soft body that covers a har ...
s in the family
Crellidae
Crellidae is a family of marine demosponges in the order Poecilosclerida.
Characteristics
Growth forms are varied and include branching, club-shaped, massive and encrusting. Identification of members of this family is based on microscopic examin ...
.
Subgenera
* ''
Crella (Crella)''
Gray, 1867
* ''
Crella (Grayella)''
Carter, 1869
* ''
Crella (Pytheas)''
Topsent, 1890
* ''
Crella (Yvesia)''
Topsent, 1890
Species
* ''
Crella acanthosclera''
(Lévi & Lévi, 1983)
* ''
Crella aceratospiculum''
(Carter, 1880)
* ''
Crella affinis''
(Brøndsted, 1924)
* ''
Crella akraleitae''
(Brøndsted, 1932)
* ''
Crella alba''
(Vacelet, 1969)
* ''
Crella albula''
(Bowerbank, 1866)
* ''
Crella atra''
(Topsent, 1890)
* ''
Crella aurantiaca''
Bertolino, Calcinai & Pansini, 2009
* ''
Crella basispinosa''
Burton, 1931
* ''
Crella beglingerae''
van Soest, 2009
* ''
Crella brasiliensis''
Moraes, 2011
* ''
Crella caespes''
(Ehlers, 1870)
* ''
Crella carnosa''
(Topsent, 1904)
* ''
Crella carteri''
Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
* ''
Crella chelifera''
van Soest, 1984
* ''
Crella commensalis''
Whitelegge, 1906
* ''
Crella compressa''
(Carter, 1886)
* ''
Crella crassa''
(Hentschel, 1914)
* ''
Crella cyathophora
''Crella'' is a genus of marine demosponges in the family Crellidae.
Subgenera
* '' Crella (Crella)'' Gray, 1867
* '' Crella (Grayella)'' Carter, 1869
* '' Crella (Pytheas)'' Topsent, 1890
* '' Crella (Yvesia)'' Topsent, 1890
Species
* '' C ...
''
Carter, 1869
* ''
Crella digitifera''
(Lévi, 1959)
* ''
Crella dispar''
(Topsent, 1927)
* ''
Crella donsi''
Burton, 1931
* ''
Crella elegans
''Crella elegans'' is a species of marine demosponges in the family Crellidae
Crellidae is a family of marine demosponges in the order Poecilosclerida.
Characteristics
Growth forms are varied and include branching, club-shaped, massive and en ...
''
(Schmidt, 1862)
* ''
Crella erecta''
(Lévi, 1963)
* ''
Crella fallax''
(Topsent, 1890)
* ''
Crella fristedti''
(Dendy, 1924)
* ''
Crella fusifera''
Sarà, 1969
* ''
Crella gelida''
(Lundbeck, 1910)
* ''
Crella gerzensteini''
(Swartschevsky, 1906)
* ''
Crella gracilis''
(Alander, 1942)
* ''
Crella guernei''
(Topsent, 1890)
* ''
Crella hanseni''
(Topsent, 1890)
* ''
Crella hennequinae''
Goodwin, Berman & Hendry, 2019
* ''
Crella incrustans''
(Carter, 1885)
* ''
Crella jaegerskioeldi''
Alander, 1937
* ''
Crella linguifera''
(Topsent, 1890)
* ''
Crella mammillata''
(Arnesen, 1903)
* ''
Crella mollior''
Topsent, 1925
* ''
Crella nodulosa''
Sarà, 1959
* ''
Crella novaezealandiae''
(Bergquist & Fromont, 1988)
* ''
Crella papillata''
(Lévi, 1958)
* ''
Crella papillosa''
(Schmidt, 1870)
* ''
Crella pertusa''
(Topsent, 1890)
* ''
Crella plana''
Picton & Goodwin, 2007
* ''
Crella polymastia''
(Thiele, 1903)
* ''
Crella pulvinar''
(Schmidt, 1868)
* ''
Crella pyrula''
(Carter, 1876)
* ''
Crella richardi''
(Topsent, 1890)
* ''
Crella ridleyi''
(Topsent, 1890)
* ''
Crella rosea''
(Topsent, 1892)
* ''
Crella rubiginosa''
(Schmidt, 1862)
* ''
Crella schottlaenderi''
(Arndt, 1913)
* ''
Crella shimonii''
Pulitzer-Finali, 1993
* ''
Crella sigmata''
Topsent, 1925
* ''
Crella spinulata''
(Hentschel, 1911)
* ''
Crella stylifera''
Hentschel, 1914
* ''
Crella topsenti''
(Babiç, 1922)
* ''
Crella triplex''
(Koltun, 1970)
* ''
Crella tubifex''
(Hentschel, 1914)
* ''
Crella ula''
(de Laubenfels, 1950)
References
External links
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Poecilosclerida
Sponge genera
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