Neopetrosia

Neopetrosia is a genus of marine petrosiid sponges. It was first established by the American spongiologist Max Walker de Laubenfels in 1932. It contains these 27 species:

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KingdomAnimalia
PhylumPorifera
ClassDemospongiae
OrderHaplosclerida
FamilyPetrosiidae

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Specimen records: 218
With media: 63
Family: Petrosiidae
Collections: CAS, UF
Recorded in: United States, New Zealand, Mauritius, Curacao, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau, Malaysia

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Petrosiidae

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taxon name: Neopetrosia
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Neopetrosia
Commons category: Neopetrosia
taxon author citation: Laubenfels, 1949

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Neopetrosia is a genus of marine petrosiid sponges. It was first established by the American spongiologist Max Walker de Laubenfels in 1932. It contains these 27 species: Neopetrosia carbonaria (Lamarck, 1814) Neopetrosia chaliniformis (Thiele, 1899) Neopetrosia compacta (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Neopetrosia contignata (Thiele, 1899) Neopetrosia cristata Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019 Neopetrosia cylindrica (Lamarck, 1815) Neopetrosia delicatula (Dendy, 1905) Neopetrosia dendrocrevacea Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019 Neopetrosia densissima (Wilson, 1904) Neopetrosia dominicana (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986) Neopetrosia dutchi Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014 Neopetrosia eurystomata Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014 Neopetrosia granulosa (Wilson, 1925) Neopetrosia halichondrioides Dendy, 1905 Neopetrosia massa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Neopetrosia ovata Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014 Neopetrosia perforata (Lévi, 1959) Neopetrosia problematica (de Laubenfels, 1930) Neopetrosia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Neopetrosia rava (Thiele, 1899) Neopetrosia retiderma (Dendy, 1922) Neopetrosia rosariensis (Zea & Rützler, 1983) Neopetrosia sapra (de Laubenfels, 1954) Neopetrosia seriata (Hentschel, 1912) Neopetrosia sigmafera Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019 Neopetrosia similis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Neopetrosia subtriangularis (Duchassaing, 1850) Neopetrosia sulcata Santos, Sandes, Cabral & Pinheiro, 2016 Neopetrosia tenera (Carter, 1887) Neopetrosia truncata (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Neopetrosia tuberosa (Dendy, 1922) Neopetrosia vanilla (de Laubenfels, 1930) Neopetrosia zumi (Ristau, 1978)

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