Keratosa
Sign in to saveKeratosa, the keratose sponges or horny sponges, is a subclass of demosponges.
Species
Subclass
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 13
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Keratosa
- Collections
- CAS, UF, UM-RSMAS, HBOI-FAU
- Recorded in
- United States, Timor-Leste, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia
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Keratosa, the keratose sponges or horny sponges, is a subclass of demosponges.
Keratosa sponges are nonspicular demosponges with organic spongin fibers forming flexible skeletons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Keratosa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.