''Stupenda'' is a genus 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. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Stupendidae and is represented by a single species, ''Stupenda singularis''.
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Habitat
''Stupenda singularis'' is found near the Colville Ridge Colville may refer to:
Places
Canada
*Colville Lake (Northwest Territories), a lake in Northwest Territories
*Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, a settlement corporation
* Colville Range, a small mountain range in southwestern British Colum ...
, in the waters of the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone.[
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References
Tetractinellida
Monotypic sponge genera
Animals described in 2016
Taxa named by Michelle Kelly (marine scientist)
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