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  Order Poecilosclerida

Family Microcionidae (+ Clathriidae)

Taxon Information

The Family Microcionidae is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Clathriidae, (Pechenik, 2015).
• Microcionidae, "9 genera (1 incertae sedis), 493 species" (Hooper et al., 2011).

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]

Web Pages

• World Porifera Database