Auloplacidae 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
Sceptrulophora
Sceptrulophora (from Ancient Greek, σκῆπτρον, ''skêptron'' - "sceptre" and -φόρος, ''-phóros'' - "bearing") is an order of hexactinellid sponges (glass sponges). They are characterized by sceptrules, a type of microsclere (micro ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Auloplax''
Schulze, 1904
* ''
Dictyoplax''
Reiswig & Dohrmann, 2014
References
Hexactinellida
Sponge families
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