family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
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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 t ...
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order
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* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
Dictyoceratida
Dictyoceratida is an order of sponges in the subclass Ceractinomorpha containing five families. Along with the Dendroceratida, it is one of the two orders of demosponges that make up the keratose or "horny" sponges, in which a mineral skeleton is ...
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Genera
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Citronia
''Citronia'' is a genus of sea sponges in the family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to mai ...
'' Cook & Bergquist, 2002de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2002). Family Dysideidae Gray, 1867. In Hooper, J., van Soest, R. & Willenz, P. (Eds.), ''Systema Porifera'' (pp. 1061–1066). Boston, MA: Springer.
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Dysidea
''Dysidea'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Dysideidae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
*'' Dysidea aedificanda''
*'' Dysidea amblia''
*'' Dysidea anceps''
*'' Dysidea arenaria''
*'' Dysidea avara''
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'' Johnston, 1842Johnston, G. (1842). ''A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes''. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars.
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Euryspongia
''Euryspongia'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Dysideidae.
The species of this genus are found in Indian and Pacific Ocean.
Species:
*'' Euryspongia arenaria''
*'' Euryspongia canalis''
*'' Euryspongia coerulea''
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'' Row, 1911Row, R. W. H. (1911). Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from Collections made by Cyril Crossland, M. A., B. Sc., F. Z. S. (Communicated, with an Introduction, by Prof. W. A. Herdman, D. Sc., F. R. S., F. L. S.) – XIX. Report on the Sponges collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 1904–5. Part II. Non-Calcarea. ''Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology'', 31(208), 287–400.
*'' Lamellodysidea'' Cook & Bergquist, 2002
*'' Pleraplysilla'' Topsent, 1905Topsent, E. (1905). Étude sur les Dendoceratida. ''Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale'', 4(3).