Dictyoceratida

Dictyoceratida is an order of sponges in the subclass Ceractinomorpha containing five families. Along with the Dendroceratida, it is one of the two orders of demosponges that make up the keratose or "horny" sponges, in which a mineral skeleton is minimal or absent and a skeleton of organic fibers containing spongin, a collagen-like material, is present instead.

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Irciniidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Dictyoceratida.

Spongiidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Dictyoceratida.

Dysideidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Dictyoceratida.

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Dysidea is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Dysideidae.

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Hyrtios is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Thorectidae.

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species of sponge

species of sponge

species of sponge

species of sponge

Verticillitidae is a family of sponges belonging to the order Dictyoceratida.

Citronia is a genus of sea sponges in the family Dysideidae. It consists of one species, Citronia vasiformis (Bergquist, 1995), which Bergquist originally described as Euryspongia vasiformis, from a specimen found in the Baie de Citrons, New Caledonia at a depth of 8 to10 m.