| Dactylia | |
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| Dactylia imitans | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Haplosclerida |
| Family: | Callyspongiidae |
| Genus: | Dactylia Carter, 1885 [1] |
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Dactylia is a genus of demosponges in the family Callyspongiidae.
Callyspongiidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Haplosclerida. It contains the following genera and species:
Dactylia elegans is a species of demosponges in the family Callyspongiidae. It is found in Western Australia.
Clathrina is a genus of calcareous sponge in the family Clathrinidae. Several species formerly in Clathrina were transferred to the newly erected genera Arturia, Ernstia, Borojevia, and Brattegardia in 2013. The name is derived from the Latin word "clathratus" meaning "latticed".
Geodia is a genus of sea sponge belonging to the family Geodiidae. It is the type genus of its taxonomic family.
Leucandra is a genus of calcareous sponge belonging to the family Grantiidae. Its earliest known fossils are from the Jurassic.
Sycon is a genus of calcareous sponges belonging to the family Sycettidae. These sponges are small, growing up to 7.5 cm and having length from 2.5 to7.5, and are tube-shaped and often white to cream in colour. It is a genus of sponges. They are known to aquarium hobbyists as "Pineapple" or "Q-Tip" sponges, and are frequent "hitchhikers" accidentally brought in.
Stelletta is a genus of demosponge belonging to the family Ancorinidae.
Echinoclathria is a genus of demosponge in the family Microcionidae.
Haliclona is a genus of demosponges in the family Chalinidae.
Ircinia is a genus of marine demosponge in the family Irciniidae.
Darwinellidae is a family of sponges of the order Dendroceratida.
Dictyodendrillidae is a family of sponges of the order Dendroceratida.
Callyspongia is a genus of demosponges in the family Callyspongiidae.
Cinachyrella is a large genus of marine sponges from Tetillidae family.
Cribrochalina is a genus of sponges with eight described species.
Gelliodes is a genus of sponges with over 30 described species:
Tetractinellida is an order of the demosponge class. First described in 1876, this order received a new description in 2012 and replaced the two orders Astrophorida and Spirophorida, which then became sub-orders as Astrophorina and Spirophorina.
Thorectidae is a family of poriferans in the order Dictyoceratida.
Carteriospongia is a genus of sponges in the family Thorectidae.
Clathria (Clathria) is a subgenus of demosponge in the family Microcionidae.
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