| Lelapiidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Calcarea |
| Order: | Leucosolenida |
| Family: | Lelapiidae Dendy & Row, 1913 |
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Lelapiidae is a family of calcareous sponges in the order Leucosolenida. [1]
Leucosolenida is an order of sponges in the class Calcarea and the subclass Calcaronea. Species in the order Leucosolenida are calcareous, with a skeleton composed exclusively of free spicules without calcified non-spicular reinforcements.
Grantiopsis is a genus of calcareous sponges belonging to the family Lelapiidae.
Sycyssa is a genus of calcareous sponges belonging to the family Lelapiidae. It is monotypic, containing a single species, Sycyssa huxley.
Lelapia is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Lelapiidae.
Stellispongiida is an order of calcareous sponges, most or all of which are extinct. Stellispongiids are one of several unrelated sponge groups described as "inozoans", a name referring to sponges with a hypermineralized calcitic skeleton independent from their spicules. Stellispongiids have a solid skeleton encasing calcite spicules arranged in trabeculae. "Inozoans" and the similar "sphinctozoans" were historically grouped together in the polyphyletic order Pharetronida.
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