''Phakellia'' is a genus of
sponges
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through ...
belonging to the family
Bubaridae
Bubaridae is a family of sponges belonging to the order Bubarida. It has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Genera
There are six genera:
* ''Auletta
Auletta is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-wester ...
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[ The genus has a ]cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
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Species
The genus contains the following species:[
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References
Sponges
Sponge genera
Taxa named by James Scott Bowerbank
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