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Dictyoceratida
Sign in to saveDictyoceratida 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
網角質海綿目
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
- OrderDictyoceratida
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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.