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Dictyoceratida

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Dictyoceratida

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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.

Species

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ORDER

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumPorifera
  3. ClassDemospongiae
  4. OrderDictyoceratida
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded81,204

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
268
With media
9
Collections
ICML-UNAM, CAS, YPM, USNM, NMV, QM
Recorded in
Mexico, United States, Indonesia, Japan, French Polynesia, Australia

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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.

== References ==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dictyoceratida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.