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  Order Tetractinellida

Suborder Astrophorina

    Family Ancorinidae
    Family Calthropellidae
    Family Corallistidae
    Family Geodiidae
    Family Isoraphinidae
    Family Macandrewiidae
    Family Neopeltidae
    Family Pachastrellidae
    Family Phymaraphiniidae
    Family Phymatellidae
    Family Pleromidae
    Family Theonellidae
    Family Thrombidae
    Family Vulcanellidae

Taxon Information

The Suborder Astrophorina 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

• Astrophorida, "6 families" (Hooper et al., 2011).

Bibliography

• 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