Geodia alba

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Geodia alba
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Tetractinellida
Family: Geodiidae
Genus: Geodia
Species:
G. alba
Binomial name
Geodia alba
(Kieschnick, 1896)
Synonyms
  • Sidonops alba(Kieschnick, 1896)
  • Synops albaKieschnick, 1896

Geodia alba is a species of sponge in the family Geodiidae. The species is found in the waters of Indonesia and was first described by Oswald Kieschnick in 1896 as Synops alba. [1]

Sponge Animals of the phylum Porifera

Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal Metazoa (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 them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. The branch of zoology that studies sponges is known as spongiology.

Geodiidae is a family of sea sponges.

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References

  1. "Geodia alba (Kieschnick, 1896)". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 26 April 2017.