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  Subclass Heteroscleromorpha

Order Haplosclerida (+ Haplosclerina, + Petrosina)

    Family Calcifibrospongiidae
    Family Callyspongiidae
    Family Chalinidae
    Family Niphatidae
    Family Petrosiidae
    Family Phloeodictyidae

Taxon Information

The Order Haplosclerida 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

  • Haplosclerida, "3 suborders" (Hooper et al., 2011).
  • Haplosclerina, "3 families" (Hooper et al., 2011).
  • Petrosina, "3 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]

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