sea 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 order
Suberitida
Suberitida is an order of sponges belonging to the class Demospongiae.
Families:
* Halichondriidae
* Stylocordylidae
* Suberitidae
References
Heteroscleromorpha
Sponge orders
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Genera
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Suberites
''Suberites'' is a genus of sea sponges in the family Suberitidae.
Sponges, known scientifically as ''Porifera'', are the oldest metazoans and are used to elucidate the basics of multicellular evolution. These living fossils are ideal for studyi ...
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Homaxinella
''Homaxinella'' is a genus of sea sponges in the family Suberitidae. The type species is ''Homaxinella balfourensis''.
Description
''Homaxinella'' was originally included in the sponge family Axinellidae but the structure of the skeleton shows t ...
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Rhizaxinella
''Rhizaxinella'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Suberitidae.
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 th ...
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Caulospongia
''Caulospongia'' is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Suberitidae
Suberitidae is a family of sea sponges
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the dipl ...
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Pseudospongosorites
''Pseudospongosorites'' is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Suberitidae. Currently, the genus is considered as monotypic, consisting of a single species ''Pseudospongosorites suberitoides''. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, the Gul ...
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Aaptos
''Aaptos'' is a genus of sea sponges in the family Suberitidae.
It was first described by John Edward Gray in 1867.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Aaptos'':Sponge families
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