''Niphates'' is a genus of sea sponges belonging to 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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. It is native to the Florida Keys, The Bahamas, and the Caribbean including the Netherlands Antilles and China seas. It also found in the
Saint Martin's island
Saint Martin Island ( bn, সেন্টমার্টিন দ্বীপ) is a small island (area only 3 km2) in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and fo ...
of the
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line between ...
,
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
.
References
Haplosclerida
Sponge genera
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