''Phakellia'' is a genus of

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 ...

belonging to the family

Bubaridae Bubaridae is a family of sponges belonging to the order Bubarida. It has a cosmopolitan distribution. Genera There are six genera: * ''Auletta Auletta is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-wester ...

. The genus has a

cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...

Species

The genus contains the following species:

References

Sponges Sponge genera Taxa named by James Scott Bowerbank {{demosponge-stub