| Aphrocallistidae | |
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| Aphrocalistes beatrix, in the family Aphrocallistidae. Image from 'An account of the Indian triaxonia collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator (1902)' | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Hexactinellida |
| Order: | Sceptrulophora |
| Family: | Aphrocallistidae Gray, 1867 [1] |
| Genera | |
Aphrocallistidae is a family of hexactinellid sponges in the order Sceptrulophora. [2]
There are two genera in Aphrocallistidae.
Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.
Halichondriidae is a family of sea sponges belonging to the order Suberitida. These sponges have a skeleton consisting of dense bundles of spicules occurring in a more or less random pattern.
Mexichromis trilineata is a colourful species of sea slug, specifically a dorid nudibranch. This marine gastropod mollusc is in the family Chromodorididae. In 2012 the genus Pectenodoris was included into Mexichromis.
Inquisitor radula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
Oxymeris is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.
Clanculus atropurpureus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Crella is a genus of marine demosponges in the family Crellidae.
Euplectellidae is a family of glass sponges (Hexactinellids) belonging to the order Lyssacinosa.
Corbitella is a genus of glass sponges (Hexactinellids) belonging to the family Euplectellidae.
Staurocalyptus is a genus of sponge. It was circumscribed in 1897 by Isao Ijima.
Dysideidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Dictyoceratida.
Amphidiscosida is an order of hexactinellid sponges characterized by amphidisc spicules, that is, spicules having a stellate disk at each end. They are in the class Hexactinellida and are the only order classified in the monotypic subclass Amphidiscophora. Species of the order Amphidiscosida have existed since the Ordovician period, and still flourish today.
Sceptrulophora is an order of hexactinellid sponges, commonly known as Glass sponges, characterized by sceptrule spicules, that is, "microscleric monactinal triaxonic spicules that include clavules with terminel umbels or smooth heads." Species of the order Sceptrulophora have existed since the Jurassic period, and still flourish today. While there is ongoing debate about the organization of various taxa in Sceptrulophora, the monophyly of the taxon Sceptrulophora is supported by the presence of sceptrules in most of the extant species, and has recently been further supported by DNA sequencing.
Farreidae is a family of glass sponges in the order Sceptrulophora.
Euretinae is a subfamily of glass sponges in the family Euretidae.
Lefroyella is a genus of glass sponges in the subfamily Euretinae, containing 2 species.
Euretidae is a family of glass sponges in the order Sceptrulophora.
Anomochone is a genus of glass sponges in the family Tretodictyidae.
Uncinateridae is a family of glass sponges in the order Sceptrulophora.
Lonchiphora is a genus of glass sponge in the family Farreidae.
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