Iotrochotidae is a family of
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 a ...
s belonging to the order
Poecilosclerida
Poecilosclerida is an order of the 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 n ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Amphiastrella''
Dendy, 1896
* ''
Hymetrochota''
Topsent, 1904
* ''
Iotroata''
Laubenfels, 1936
* ''
Iotrochopsamma''
Laubenfels, 1954
* ''
Iotrochota''
Ridley, 1884
* ''
Rotuloplocamia''
Lévi, 1952
References
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Poecilosclerida
Sponge families