Heteroxyidae is a family of
sponges
Sponges or sea sponges are primarily marine invertebrates of the animal phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), a basal clade and a sister taxon of the diploblasts. They are sessile filter feeders that are bound to the seabed, and ar ...
belonging to the order
Axinellida
Axinellida is an order of demosponges in the subclass Heteroscleromorpha. The order contains the families Axinellidae
Axinellidae is a family of sponges in the order Axinellida.
This family includes some photo-synthetic sponges that occur thr ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Acanthoclada''
Bergquist, 1970
* ''
Alloscleria''
Topsent, 1927
* ''
Alveospongia''
Santos, Pinheiro, Hajdu & Van Soest, 2016
* ''
Desmoxya''
* ''Didiscus''
Dendy, 1922
* ''
Heteroxya''
Topsent, 1898
* ''
Julavis''
Laubenfels, 1936
* ''
Myrmekioderma''
Ehlers, 1870
* ''Negombo''
Dendy, 1905
* ''
Parahigginsia''
Dendy, 1924
References
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Heteroscleromorpha
Sponge families
Taxa described in 1905