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Order Spongillida
Family Spongillidae (freshwater sponges)
Genus Anheteromeyenia -- Wisconsin!
Genus Duosclera -- Wisconsin!
Genus Ephydatia -- Wisconsin!
Genus Eunapius -- Wisconsin!
Genus Heteromeyenia -- Wisconsin!
Genus Pottsiela -- Wisconsin!
Genus Racekiela -- Wisconsin!
Genus Radiospongilla -- Wisconsin!
Genus Spongilla -- Wisconsin!
Genus Trochospongilla -- Wisconsin!
Genus Dosilia -- midwestern North America.
Genus Corvospongilla -- North America.
Genus Stratospongilla -- North America.
Genus Corvoheteromeyenia
Genus Heterorotula
Genus Nudospongilla
Genus Pachyrotula
Genus Pectispongilla
Genus Sanidastra
Genus Saturnospongilla
Genus Umborotula
Genus Uruguayella
Taxon Information
The Family Spongillidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.
(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)
Literature Records
- Spongillidae, "... approximately 300 freshwater sponge species..." (Pechenik, 2015).
- Spongillidae, "24 genera, 173 species" (Hooper et al., 2011).
- Spongillidae, [Wisconsin] (Annesley et al., 2008).
- Spongillidae, [Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australasian, Pacific Ocean islands; 145 species in 21 genera worldwide] (Manconi & Pronzato, 2008).
- Spongillidae: Spongillinae, (Jewell, 1959).
Bibliography
- Pechenik, J.A. 2015. Biology of the Invertebrates, 7th edition. McGraw-Hill, NewYork.. 606 pp.
- Hooper, J.N.A., R.W.M. Van Soest & A. Pisera. 2011. Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness . Zootaxa 3148: 13–18. [Available online]
- Manconi, R. & R. Pronzato. 2008. Global diversity of sponges (Porifera: Spongillina) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595(1): 27-33. [Available online]
- Annesley, J., J. Jass & D. Watermolen. 2008. Wisconsin freshwater sponge species documented by scanning electron microscopy. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23(2): 263-272. [Available online]
- Jewell, M. 1959. Porifera. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 298-312.
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