Crella elegans

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Crella elegans
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Family: Crellidae
Genus: Crella
Subgenus: Crella
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Crella elegans
(Schmidt, 1862) [1]
Synonyms
List
  • Crella (Crella) elegans(Schmidt, 1862)
  • Cribrella elegansSchmidt, 1862
  • Kowalewskyella gracilisSwartschewsky, 1905

Crella elegans is a species of marine demosponges in the family Crellidae found in the Adriatic. It is the type species of its genus. It is the host of the ectoparasitic copepod Cryptopontius capitalis .

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References

  1. Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7. page(s): 38