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 sponges
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 ...
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order
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* 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
*'' Bergquistia'' Sim & Lee, 2002Sim, C J. & Lee, K. J. (2002). A new species in the family Irciniidae (Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida) from Korea. ''Korean Journal of Biological Sciences'', 6, 283–285.
*'' Ircinia'' Nardo, 1833Nardo, G. D. (1833). Auszug aue einem neuen System der Spongiaren, wonach bereits die. In ''Isis, oder, Encyclopädische Zeitung von Oken'' (pp. 519–523). Padua: Universtäts-Sammlung zu Padua.
*'' Psammocinia'' von Lendenfeld, 1889von Lendenfeld, R. (1889). A monograph of the horny sponges. ''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology'', 6(6), 418–423.
*'' Sarcotragus'' Schmidt, 1862Schmidt, O. (1862). ''Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres''. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelman.