Spongicolidae is a

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of glass sponge shrimps in the order Decapoda. There are about 8 genera and more than 40 described species in Spongicolidae.

Genera

These eight genera belong to the family Spongicolidae: * '' Engystenopus'' Alcock & Anderson, 1894 * '' Globospongicola'' Komai & Saito, 2006 * '' Microprosthema'' Stimpson, 1860 * '' Paraspongicola'' de Saint Laurent & Cleva, 1981 * '' Spongicola'' de Haan, 1844 * '' Spongicoloides'' Hansen, 1908 * '' Spongiocaris'' Bruce & Baba, 1973 * † '' Jilinicaris'' Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000

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