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''Topsentia'' is a genus 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 family
Halichondriidae Halichondriidae is a family of sea sponges belonging to the order Suberitida. These sponges have a skeleton consisting of dense bundles of spicule (sponge), spicules occurring in a more or less random pattern. Genera The following genera are rec ...
. The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.


Species

Species: *'' Topsentia amorpha'' *'' Topsentia aqabaensis'' *'' Topsentia arcotti'' *''Topsentia ophiraphidites''  (de Laubenfels, 1934)


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4116628 Heteroscleromorpha Sponge genera