Mycalidae is a
family
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of marine
demosponge
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A species () is often de ...
s.
Genera
According to the World Register of Marine Species, there are only two
genera
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in this family. Previously there were about 26, but most of these have been reallocated as sub-genera of the remaining two genera, ''Mycale ''and ''Phlyctaenopora:
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*Genus ''
Mycale
Mycale () also Mykale and Mykali (, ''Mykálē''), called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı ( Dilek Peninsula) in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander and divided from the ...
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Gray, 1867
**subgenus ''
Mycale (Aegogropila)''
Gray, 1867 - About 37 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Anomomycale)''
Topsent, 1924 - Monotypic.
***Species ''
Mycale (Anomomycale) titubans''
(Schmidt, 1870)
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Arenochalina)''
Lendenfeld, 1887 - About 13 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Carmia)''
Gray, 1867 - About 46 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Grapelia)''
Gray, 1867 - About 9 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Mycale)''
Gray, 1867 - About 45 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Naviculina)''
Gray, 1867 - About 11 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Oxymycale)''
Hentschel, 1929 - About 9 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Paresperella)
Mycale () also Mykale and Mykali (, ''Mykálē''), called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı (Dilek Peninsula) in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander and divided from the ...
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Dendy, 1905 - About 18 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Rhaphidotheca)
Mycale () also Mykale and Mykali (, ''Mykálē''), called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı (Dilek Peninsula) in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander and divided from the ...
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Kent, 1870 - About 4 species.
**Subgenus ''
Mycale (Zygomycale)
Mycale () also Mykale and Mykali (, ''Mykálē''), called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı (Dilek Peninsula) in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander and divided from the ...
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Topsent, 1931 - About 3 species.
**Unallocated ''Mycale'': About 33 species.
*Genus ''
Phlyctaenopora''
Topsent, 1904
**Subgenus ''
Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia)''
Dendy, 1922 - 2 species.
***Species ''
Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia) bocagei''
Lévi & Lévi, 1983
***Species ''
Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia) primitiva''
(Dendy, 1922)
**Subgenus ''
Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora)''
Topsent, 1904 - 2 species.
***Species ''
Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora) bitorquis''
Topsent, 1904
***Species ''
Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora) halichondrioides''
van Soest & Stentoft, 1988
References
Poecilosclerida
Demospongiae
Sponge families
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