''Neopetrosia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
marine petrosiid 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. It was first established by the
American
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** American ancestry, p ...
spongiologist Max Walker de Laubenfels
Max Walker de Laubenfels (1894–1958) was an American spongiologist. He received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in 1916 and his master's and doctorate degrees from Stanford University in 1926 and 1929, respectively.
He was a ...
in 1932. It contains these 27
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
:
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Neopetrosia carbonaria''
(Lamarck, 1814)
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Neopetrosia chaliniformis''
(Thiele, 1899)
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Neopetrosia compacta''
(Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Neopetrosia contignata''
(Thiele, 1899)
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Neopetrosia cristata''
Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
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Neopetrosia cylindrica''
(Lamarck, 1815)
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Neopetrosia delicatula''
(Dendy, 1905)
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Neopetrosia dendrocrevacea''
Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
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Neopetrosia densissima''
(Wilson, 1904)
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Neopetrosia dominicana''
(Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)
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Neopetrosia dutchi''
Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
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Neopetrosia eurystomata''
Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
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Neopetrosia granulosa''
(Wilson, 1925)
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Neopetrosia halichondrioides''
Dendy, 1905
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Neopetrosia massa''
(Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Neopetrosia ovata''
Van Soest, Meesters & Becking, 2014
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Neopetrosia perforata''
(Lévi, 1959)
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Neopetrosia problematica''
(de Laubenfels, 1930)
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Neopetrosia proxima''
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
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Neopetrosia rava''
(Thiele, 1899)
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Neopetrosia retiderma''
(Dendy, 1922)
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Neopetrosia rosariensis''
(Zea & Rützler, 1983)
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Neopetrosia sapra''
(de Laubenfels, 1954)
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Neopetrosia seriata''
(Hentschel, 1912)
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Neopetrosia sigmafera''
Vicente, Ríos, Zea & Toonen, 2019
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Neopetrosia similis''
(Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Neopetrosia subtriangularis
''Neopetrosia subtriangularis'' is a species of marine petrosiid sponges native to the waters off Florida and the Caribbean Sea. They superficially resemble staghorn corals.
Taxonomy
''Neopetrosia subtriangularis'' was originally described by ...
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(Duchassaing, 1850)
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Neopetrosia sulcata''
Santos, Sandes, Cabral & Pinheiro, 2016
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Neopetrosia tenera''
(Carter, 1887)
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Neopetrosia truncata''
(Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Neopetrosia tuberosa''
(Dendy, 1922)
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Neopetrosia vanilla''
(de Laubenfels, 1930)
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Neopetrosia zumi''
(Ristau, 1978)
References
Haplosclerida
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