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Theneidae is a family of
sponges 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 ar ...
belonging to the order
Tetractinellida Tetractinellida is an Order (biology), order of sea sponges belonging to the class Demospongiae. First described in 1876, this order received a new description in 2012 and replaced the two orders Astrophorida and Spirophorida, which then became s ...
. Genera: * '' Annulastrella'' Maldonado, 2002 * '' Cladothenea'' Koltun, 1964 * '' Thenea'' Gray, 1867


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