Biology:Heteropiidae

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Short description: Family of sponges

Heteropiidae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Calcarea
Order: Leucosolenida
Family: Heteropiidae
Dendy, 1893
Genera
  • Grantessa Lendenfeld, 1885
  • Grantilla Row, 1909
  • Heteropia Carter, 1886
  • Paraheteropia Borojevic, 1965
  • Sycettusa Haeckel, 1872
  • Syconessa Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000
  • Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1893

Heteropiidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Leucosolenida in the class Calcarea.[1] In a 2012 paper, Oliver Voigt, Eilika Wülfing and Gert Wörheide (2012) confirmed that the family Heteropiidae is not monophyletic./[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3522950 entry