Dysideidae

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Dysideidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Dictyoceratida
Family:Dysideidae
Gray, 1867 [1]

Dysideidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Dictyoceratida.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

In biological classification, the order is

  1. a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family. An immediately higher rank, superorder, may be added directly above order, while suborder would be a lower rank.
  2. a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank. In that case the plural is orders.
Dictyoceratida Order of sponges

Dictyoceratida is an order of sponges in the subclass Ceractinomorpha containing five families. Along with the Dendroceratida, it is one of the two orders of demosponges that make up the keratose or "horny" sponges, in which a mineral skeleton is minimal or absent and a skeleton of organic fibers containing spongin, a collagen-like material, is present instead.

Genera

Citronia is a genus of sea sponges in the family Dysideidae. It consists of one species, Citronia vasiformis(Bergquist, 1995).

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References

  1. ↑ Gray, J. E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Description of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867, 492–558.
  2. 1 2 de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2002). Family Dysideidae Gray, 1867. In Hooper, J., van Soest, R. & Willenz, P. (Eds.), Systema Porifera (pp. 1061–1066). Boston, MA: Springer.
  3. ↑ Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars.
  4. ↑ Row, R. W. H. (1911). Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from Collections made by Cyril Crossland, M. A., B. Sc., F. Z. S. (Communicated, with an Introduction, by Prof. W. A. Herdman, D. Sc., F. R. S., F. L. S.) – XIX. Report on the Sponges collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 1904–5. Part II. Non-Calcarea. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 31(208), 287–400.
  5. ↑ Topsent, E. (1905). Étude sur les Dendoceratida. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale, 4(3).


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