family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
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sea sponge
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 are o ...
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order
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
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Dictyoceratida
Dictyoceratida is an order of sponges in the subclass Ceractinomorpha containing five families. Along with the Dendroceratida, it is one of the two orders of demosponges that make up the keratose or "horny" sponges, in which a mineral skeleton ...
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Genera
*'' Citronia'' Cook & Bergquist, 2002de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2002). Family Dysideidae Gray, 1867. In Hooper, J., van Soest, R. & Willenz, P. (Eds.), ''Systema Porifera'' (pp. 1061–1066). Boston, MA: Springer.
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Dysidea
''Dysidea'' is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Dysideidae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth ...
'' Johnston, 1842Johnston, G. (1842). ''A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes''. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars.
*'' Euryspongia'' Row, 1911Row, R. W. H. (1911). Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from Collections made by Cyril Crossland, M. A., B. Sc., F. Z. S. (Communicated, with an Introduction, by Prof. W. A. Herdman, D. Sc., F. R. S., F. L. S.) – XIX. Report on the Sponges collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 1904–5. Part II. Non-Calcarea. ''Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology'', 31(208), 287–400.
*'' Lamellodysidea'' Cook & Bergquist, 2002
*'' Pleraplysilla'' Topsent, 1905Topsent, E. (1905). Étude sur les Dendoceratida. ''Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale'', 4(3).