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Petrosia
Sign in to savePetrosia is a benthic genus of sponges belonging to the family Petrosiidae.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
- OrderHaplosclerida
- FamilyPetrosiidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,148
- With media
- 231
- Family
- Petrosiidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, QM
- Recorded in
- Taiwan, Philippines, Micronesia, Federated States Of, Belize, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Malaysia
Research
127 papers- Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789): an excellent model for holobiont and biotechnological studies.Current opinion in biotechnology · 2022
- Secondary Metabolites from the Marine Sponges of the Genus Petrosia: A Literature Review of 43 Years of Research.Marine drugs · 2021
- Two new sarasinosides from marine sponge Petrosia nigricans.Natural product research · 2024
- Isolation and Characterization of Anti-Mycobacterial Natural Products from a Petrosia sp. Marine Sponge.Journal of natural products · 2023
- New Bioactive Polyacetylenes from the Marine Sponge Petrosia sp.Chemistry & biodiversity · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Diet
- Distribution
- Description
- Species
- References
Petrosia is a benthic genus of sponges belonging to the family Petrosiidae.
== Diet == They are filter feeders, and their diet is composed of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, plankton, and unicellular algae. Certain species can also absorb dissolved organic matter directly from the water. Other species host symbiotic cyanobacteria, which can provide additional nutrition via photosynthesis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petrosia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.