Agelas
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
- OrderAgelasida
- FamilyAgelasidae
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Agelas is a genus of sea sponge in the class Demospongiae.
==Ecology and distribution== Members of this genus are filter feeders. and occur in the West Indies, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in shallow tropical and subtropical waters down to a depth of or exceptionally .