''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 ...
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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:
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Topsentia amorpha''
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Topsentia aqabaensis''
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Topsentia arcotti''
*''Topsentia ophiraphidites'' (de Laubenfels, 1934)
References
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Heteroscleromorpha
Sponge genera