Polymastiidae

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Polymastiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Class: Demospongiae Order: Hadromerida Family: Polymastiidae Gray, 1867
genera include
Acanthopolymastia Atergia Polymastia Proteleia Quasillina Radiella Ridleia Sphaerotylus Spinularia Tentorina Tentorium Trichostemma Tylexocladus Vosmaeria

Polymastiidae is a family of demosponges found in oceans throughout the world. A useful diagnostic characteristic of members of this family is the presence of numerous surface papillae although this feature is shown by some other sponges.

[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.