Halichondrida

Taxobox


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Halichondria panicea
name = Halichondrida
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Porifera
classis = Demospongiae
ordo = Halichondrida
ordo_authority = Gray, 1867
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = Axinellidae
Bubaridae
Dictyonellidae
Halichondriidae
Heteroxyidae

Halichondrida is an order of marine demosponges. Demosponges with simple spicules and a generally confused skeletal arrangement are presently grouped into this order although its monophyly is considered suspect and further taxonomic revision can be expected.

References

* [http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=131596 Taxon page in World Porifera Database]
* [http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/pdf/57/sm57n4283.pdf A systematic revision of the central West Atlantic: Halichondrida (Demospongiae, Porifera). Part III: Description of valid species]