| Ircinia | |
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| Ircinia campana at 90 meters in California, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Dictyoceratida |
| Family: | Irciniidae |
| Genus: | Ircinia Nardo, 1833 |
| Species | |
87 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ircinia is a genus of sea sponges in the family Irciniidae. [1]
The following 87 species are recognized in the genus Ircinia: [1]
Polymastia is a genus of sea sponges containing about 30 species. These are small to large encrusting or dome-shaped sponges with a smooth surface having many teat-shaped projections (papillae). In areas of strong wave action, this genus does not grow the teat structures, but instead grows in a corrugated form.
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.
Spongia is a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae, originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1759, containing more than 60 species. Some species, including Spongia officinalis, are used as cleaning tools, but have mostly been replaced in that use by synthetic or plant material.
Plakinidae is a family of marine sponges. It is composed of seven genera:
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.
Stelletta is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Ancorinidae.
Clathria is a large genus of demosponges in the family Microcionidae.
Haliclona is a genus of demosponges in the family Chalinidae.
Darwinellidae is a family of sponges in the order Dendroceratida.
Dictyodendrillidae is a family of sponges in the order Dendroceratida.
Agelas is a genus of sea sponge in the class Demospongiae.
Callyspongia is a genus of demosponges in the family Callyspongiidae.
Neopetrosia is a genus of marine petrosiid sponges. It was first established by the American spongiologist Max Walker de Laubenfels in 1932. It contains these 27 species:
Aplysina is a genus of sea sponges in the order Verongiida. It was first authenticated and described by Nardo in 1834.
Gelliodes is a genus of sponges in the family Niphatidae.
Clathria (Clathria) is a subgenus of demosponge in the family Microcionidae.
Tedania is a genus of sea sponges in the family Tedaniidae.
Smenospongia is a genus of demosponges in the family Thorectidae.
Mycale is a genus of demosponge with 240 recognised species in 11 subgenera. It has been a large genus with multiple subdivisions since it was first described in 1867.
Phorbas is a genus of demosponges belonging to the family Hymedesmiidae.
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