Polymastia (sponge)

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Polymastia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Class: Demospongiae Order: Hadromerida Family: Polymastiidae Genus: Polymastia Bowerbank, 1863
Species
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Polymastia is a genus of sponges (Porifera). These are small to large encrusting or dome-shaped sponges with a smooth surface marked with many papillae.

Its species include:-

Polymastia agglutinans Polymastia aurantium Polymastia bicolor Polymastia boletiformis [1] Polymastia bursa Polymastia conigera Polymastia crassa Polymastia craticia Polymastia croceus Polymastia echinus Polymastia fusca

Polymastia granulosa image Polymastia grimaldi Polymastia hirsuta Polymastia inflata Polymastia invaginata image Polymastia isidis Polymastia lorum Polymastia mamillaris Polymastia massilis Polymastia megasclera

Polymastia mespilus Polymastia penicillus [2] Polymastia pepo Polymastia rubens Polymastia spinula Polymastia tapetum Polymastia thielei Polymastia uberrima Polymastia umbraculum Polymastia zitteli

[edit] References

• North East Atlantic Taxa
• Michelle Kelly-Borges & Patricia R. Bergquist (1997). Revision of Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent, and Acanthopolymastia gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 31: 367–402.