sponges
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through ...
belonging to the order
Bubarida
Bubarida is an order of demosponges in the subclass Heteroscleromorpha
Heteroscleromorpha is a subclass of demosponges within the phylum Porifera
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal anima ...
. It has a
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
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Genera
There are six genera:
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Auletta
Auletta is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
History
According to a legend retold by historian Giovan Battista Pacichelli, the name of Auletta would stem from Auleto, one of Aene ...