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  Subclass Keratosa

Order Dictyoceratida

    Family Dysideidae
    Family Ircinidae
    Family Spongiidae
    Family Thorectidae
    Family Verticillitidae

Taxon Information

The Order Dictyoceratida 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

• Dictyoceratida, "5 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]