''Neopetrosia'' is a
genus
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of
marine
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petrosiid 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. It was first established by the
American
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spongiologist Max Walker de Laubenfels in 1932. It contains these 27
species
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:
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Neopetrosia carbonaria''
(Lamarck, 1814)
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Neopetrosia chaliniformis''
(Thiele, 1899)
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Neopetrosia compacta''
(Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Neopetrosia contignata''
(Thiele, 1899)
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Neopetrosia cristata''
Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
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Neopetrosia cylindrica''
(Lamarck, 1815)
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Neopetrosia delicatula''
(Dendy, 1905)
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Neopetrosia dendrocrevacea''
Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
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Neopetrosia densissima''
(Wilson, 1904)
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Neopetrosia dominicana''
(Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)
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Neopetrosia dutchi''
Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
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Neopetrosia eurystomata''
Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
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Neopetrosia granulosa''
(Wilson, 1925)
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Neopetrosia halichondrioides''
Dendy, 1905
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Neopetrosia massa''
(Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Neopetrosia ovata''
Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
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Neopetrosia perforata''
(Lévi, 1959)
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Neopetrosia problematica''
(de Laubenfels, 1930)
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Neopetrosia proxima''
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
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Neopetrosia rava''
(Thiele, 1899)
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Neopetrosia retiderma''
(Dendy, 1922)
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Neopetrosia rosariensis
''Neopetrosia'' is a genus of marine petrosiid sponges. It was first established by the American spongiologist Max Walker de Laubenfels in 1932. It contains these 27 species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and ...
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(Zea & Rützler, 1983)
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Neopetrosia sapra''
(de Laubenfels, 1954)
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Neopetrosia seriata''
(Hentschel, 1912)
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Neopetrosia sigmafera''
Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
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Neopetrosia similis''
(Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Neopetrosia subtriangularis''
(Duchassaing, 1850)
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Neopetrosia sulcata''
Santos, Sandes, Cabral & Pinheiro, 2016
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Neopetrosia tenera''
(Carter, 1887)
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Neopetrosia truncata''
(Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Neopetrosia tuberosa''
(Dendy, 1922)
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Neopetrosia vanilla''
(de Laubenfels, 1930)
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Neopetrosia zumi''
(Ristau, 1978)
References
Petrosina
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