Spongilidae is a family of sponges that live in freshwater lakes and rivers. The following genera are recognized in the family:
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Anheteromeyenia
''Anheteromeyenia'' is a genus of freshwater sponge. It has been recorded in the Nearctic, the Neotropics. This taxon was initially a subgenus of '' Heteromeyenia'' when K. Schöder circumscribed it in 1927, but W. M. de Laubenfels made it a genu ...
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Schröder, 1927
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Corvoheteromeyenia''
Ezcurra de Drago, 1979
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Corvospongilla''
Annandale, 1911
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Dosilia''
Gray, 1867
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Duosclera''
Reiswig & Ricciardi, 1993
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Ephydatia
''Ephydatia'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Spongillidae.
The genus was first described by Jean Lamouroux in 1816.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
*'' Ephydatia caatingae'' Nicacio & Pinheiro, 2015
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Lamouroux, 1816
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Eunapius
Eunapius ( el, Εὐνάπιος; fl. 4th–5th century AD) was a Greek sophist and historian of the 4th century AD. His principal surviving work is the ''Lives of Philosophers and Sophists'' ( grc-gre, Βίοι Φιλοσόφων καὶ Σο ...
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Gray, 1867
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Heteromeyenia
''Heteromeyenia'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Spongillidae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of ...
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Potts, 1881
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Heterorotula''
Penney & Racek, 1968
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Nudospongilla''
Annandale, 1918
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Pachyrotula''
Volkmer-Ribeiro & Rützler, 1997
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Pectispongilla''
Annandale, 1909
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Pottsiela''
Volkmer-Ribeiro, Souza-Machado, Furstenau-Oliveira, Vieira-Soares, 2010
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Racekiela
''Racekiela'' is a genus of freshwater sponges in the Family (biology), family Spongillidae.
Species
*''Racekiela andina'' Hernandez & Barreat, 2017Hernández, V. M. Q. & Barreat, J. G. N. (2017). ''Racekiela andina'' sp. nov. (Spongillida: Spon ...
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Bass & Volkmer-Ribeiro, 1998
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Radiospongilla
''Radiospongilla'' is a genus of freshwater sponges in the family Spongillidae. It was defined by Penney and Racek in 1968. The type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name ...
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Penney & Racek, 1968
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Sanidastra
''Sanidastra'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Spongillidae
Spongilidae is a family of sponges that live in freshwater lakes and rivers. The following genera are recognized in the family:
* ''Anheteromeyenia'' Schröder, 1927
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Volkmer-Ribeiro & Watanabe, 1983
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Saturnospongilla''
Volkmer-Ribeiro, 1976
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Spongilla
Overview
''Spongilla'' is a genus of freshwater sponges with over 200 different species. Spongilla was first publicly recognized in 1696 by Leonard Plukenet and can be found in lakes, ponds and slow streams.''Spongilla'' have a leuconoid body f ...
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Lamarck, 1816
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Stratospongilla''
Annandale, 1909
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Trochospongilla
''Trochospongilla'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Spongillidae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most o ...
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Vejdovsky, 1888
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Umborotula''
Penney & Racek, 1968
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Uruguayella''
Bonetto & Ezcurra de Drago, 1969
References
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