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Dictyonellidae
Sign in to saveDictyonellidae is a family of sponges in the order Bubarida, based on the genus Dictyonella Schmidt, 1868.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
- OrderBubarida
- FamilyDictyonellidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 33
- With media
- 16
- Family
- Dictyonellidae
- Collections
- NMV, QM, WAM, MAGNT
- Recorded in
- Australia, Tanzania, French Polynesia, Malaysia, Belize, Indonesia, Virgin Islands (U.S.), United States
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Encyclopedic overview
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Dictyonellidae is a family of sponges in the order Bubarida, based on the genus Dictyonella Schmidt, 1868.
It may be noted that Dictyonellida Cooper, 1956 is, however, a brachiopod order based on Dictyonella Hall, 1868 (now Eodictyonella Wright, 1994).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dictyonellidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.