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Clathria is a large genus of demosponges in the family Microcionidae.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumPorifera
  3. ClassDemospongiae
  4. OrderPoecilosclerida
  5. FamilyMicrocionidae
Habitatmarine

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Clathria
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Clathria
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Schmidt, 1862
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Clathria is a large genus of demosponges in the family Microcionidae.

==Taxonomy== Clathria was first formally named in Eduard Oscar Schmidt's 1862 Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres ("The sponges of the Adriatic Sea"). The type species is Clathria (Clathria) compressa.

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