''Dasychalina'' is a genus of
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 t ...
s in the family
Niphatidae
Niphatidae is a family of demosponges in the order Haplosclerida, first described in 1980 by Rob van Soest. It contains the following genera:
* ''Amphimedon (sponge), Amphimedon'' Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
* ''Cribrochalina'' Schmidt, 1870
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Species
* ''
Dasychalina fragilis''
Ridley & Dendy, 1886
* ''
Dasychalina magellanica''
(Thiele, 1905)
* ''
Dasychalina melior''
Ridley & Dendy, 1886
* ''
Dasychalina validissima''
(Thiele, 1905)
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q4115216
Sponge genera
Haplosclerida
Taxa named by Arthur Dendy
Taxa named by Stuart Oliver Ridley