| Leucettidae | |
|---|---|
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| Leucetta chagosensis | |
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| unidentified Leucettidae (Indonesia) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Calcarea |
| Order: | Clathrinida |
| Family: | Leucettidae Laubenfels, 1936 |
Leucettidae is a family of sea sponges in the subclass Calcinea, first described by Max Walker de Laubenfels in 1936. [1] [2]
Dendyidae is a family of calcareous sponges, which contains thirteen species in two genera.
Halichondriidae is a family of sea sponges belonging to the order Suberitida. These sponges have a skeleton consisting of dense bundles of spicules occurring in a more or less random pattern.
Halichondria is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Halichondriidae. These are massive, amorphous sponges with clearly separated inner and outer skeletons consisting of bundles of spicules arranged in a seemingly random pattern.
Cliona californiana, the yellow boring sponge, boring sponge or sulphur sponge, is a species of demosponge belonging to the family Clionaidae. It is native to the north-eastern Pacific Ocean and burrows into the shell valves of bivalve molluscs.
Axinella is a genus of sponges in the family Axinellidae first described in 1862 by Eduard Oscar Schmidt. Species of Axinella occur in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Most of these sponges are smaller than 20 cm, and have a yellow or orange colour.
Leuconia is a genus of calcareous sponges in the family Baeriidae. It was described by English anatomist and zoologist Robert Edmond Grant in 1833.
Darwinellidae is a family of sponges in the order Dendroceratida.
Tectitethya crypta is a species of demosponge belonging to the family Tethyidae. Its classified family is characterized by fourteen different known genera, one of them being Tectitethya. It is a massive, shallow-water sponge found in the Caribbean Sea. This sponge was first discovered by Werner Bergmann in 1945 and later classified by de Laubenfels in 1949. It is located in reef areas situated on softer substrates such as sand or mud. Oftentimes, it is covered in sand and algae. This results in an appearance that is cream colored/ gray colored; however, when the animal is washed free of its sediment coverings, its body plan appears more green and gray. It's characterized with ostia peaking out of its body cavity, with the ability to abruptly open or close, changing its desired water flow rate through its mesohyl.
Dictyonellidae is a family of sponges in the order Bubarida.
Negombata is a genus of sponges in the family Podospongiidae.
Podospongiidae is a family of sponges in the order Poecilosclerida.
Max Walker de Laubenfels (1894–1960) was an American spongiologist. He was a Professor of Zoology at Oregon State College.
Stelletta kallitetilla is a species of demosponge belonging to the family Ancorinidae. It is native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It was first described in 1936 by the American zoologist Max Walker de Laubenfels as Myriastra kallitetilla but was later transferred to the genus Stelletta.
Protomonaxonida is an extinct order of sea sponges. It is a paraphyletic group gathering the most ancient species from the Burgess Shale to modern sponges.
Phymaraphiniidae is a family of sea sponges.
Halichondria adelpha is a species of sea sponge belonging to the family Halichondriidae.
Axinyssa is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Halichondriidae.
Ciocalapata is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Halichondriidae.
Calyx is a genus of sea sponges of the Family Phloeodictyidae.
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