Sponge genera

Ptilocaulis is a genus of demosponges. The species within this genus are usually red or orange. They are often called tree sponges, as they grow many branches from a single stem resembling trees. They can grow to large size.

Hamacantha is a genus of sponges in the family Hamacanthidae. This species in this genus differ from those in the other genera in this family through the presence of diancistras, distinctive microscleres. These are thought to aid in framing the skeleton by joining monactine megascleres (that is megascleres that grow in only a single direction). This genus contains 30 species in three subgenera.

Leucettusa is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Leucaltidae. The species of this genus are mostly known from the Arctic and Antarctic, New Zealand and Southwest Australia.

Ascaltis is a genus of sponges in the family Leucascidae, first described in 1872 by Ernst Haeckel.

Suberea is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Aplysinellidae.

Pipestela is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Axinellidae. The species of this genus are found in Australian waters, New Guinea and other countries to the north of Australia.

Leucascus is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Leucascidae.

Soleneiscus is a genus of calcareous sponges in the family Dendyidae.

Verongula is a genus of sea sponges in the family Aplysinidae.

Leucaltis is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Leucaltidae.

Tetrapocillon is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Guitarridae.

Trochospongilla is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Spongillidae.

Leucandrilla is a genus of calcareous sponge belonging to the family Grantiidae.

Svenzea is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Scopalinidae, first described in 2002.

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Levinella is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Levinellidae.

Scopalina is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Scopalinidae.

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Ochridaspongia is genus of freshwater sponges containing two species: Ochridaspongia rotunda Ochridaspongia interlithonis

Rezinkovia is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Lubomirskiidae.

Ciocalapata is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Halichondriidae.

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Narrabeena is a genus of sea sponges in the family Aplysinellidae. that was first described in 2002 by Steve C. de Cook and Patricia Bergquist.

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Nethea is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Pachastrellidae, that was first described in 1888 by William Johnson Sollas.

Sycandra is a genus of calcareous sponge belonging to the family Grantiidae.

Leucopsila is a genus of poriferans in the family Baeriidae, was originally described as Leuconia stylifera in 1870. The genus was described by Dendy & Row in 1913.

Manihinea is a genus of deep-water sea sponge in the Theonellidae family, first described by Gustavo Pulitzer-Finali in 1993. The generic description was emended in 2002 by Pisera and Lévi.

Petrostroma is a genus of calcareous sponges belonging to the family Minchinellidae.

Leuclathrina is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Dendyidae. Species are found in the northeast Atlantic and in the Indian Ocean.