''Crella elegans'' is a species of marine
demosponge
Demosponges or common sponges are sponges of the class Demospongiae (from + ), the most diverse group in the phylum Porifera which include greater than 90% of all extant sponges with nearly 8,800 species
A species () is often de ...
s in the family
Crellidae found in the Adriatic. It is the type species of its genus. It is the host of the ectoparasitic copepod ''
Cryptopontius capitalis''.
References
External links
''Crella (Crella) elegans'' at World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
Poecilosclerida
Sponges described in 1862
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