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Verongiida
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Verongiida (also known as Verongida) is an order of sea sponges within the phylum Porifera. The "skeleton" in these sponges is made up of spongin, rather than of spicules. They live in marine environments. The name was proposed by Patricia Bergquist in 1978.
Species
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
- OrderVerongiida
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded34,968
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 196
- With media
- 26
- Collections
- USNM, NMV, QM, AM
- Recorded in
- French Polynesia, Australia, Tanzania, Thailand, New Zealand, Philippines
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Verongimorpha
- Image
- Aplysina archeri (Stove-pipe Sponge-pink variation).jpg
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- Commons category
- Verongida
- taxon name
- Verongiida
- taxon rank
- order
- topic's main category
- Category:Verongida
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Verongiida (also known as Verongida) is an order of sea sponges within the phylum Porifera. The "skeleton" in these sponges is made up of spongin, rather than of spicules. They live in marine environments. The name was proposed by Patricia Bergquist in 1978.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Verongiida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.