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Spongiidae is a
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 ...
of
sea 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 in the order
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 ...
.


Genera

*'' Coscinoderma'' Carter, 1883 *''
Evenor Evenor (Ancient Greek: or Εὐήνορα ''Euenor'' means 'joy of men') is the name of a character from the myth of Atlantis and of several historical figures. ''Mythological'' * Evenor, father of Cleito by Leucippe. *Evenor, the "brazen-tasl ...
'' Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 *''
Hippospongia ''Hippospongia'' is a genus of 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 ch ...
'' Schulze, 1879 *' Lendenfeld, 1888 *'' Leiosella'' Lendenfeld, 1888 *'' Rhopaloeides'' Thompson, Murphy, Bergquist & Evans, 1987 *''
Spongia ''Spongia'' is a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae, originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1759, containing more than 60 species. Some species, including '' Spongia officinalis'', are used as cleaning tools, but have mostly been ...
'' Linnaeus, 1759


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Dictyoceratida Sponge families {{demosponge-stub