Halichondria

Taxobox


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Halichondria panicea
name = "Halichondria"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Porifera
classis = Demospongiae
ordo = Halichondrida
familia = Halichondriidae
genus = "Halichondria"
genus_authority = Fleming, 1828
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Halichondria" is a genus of marine demosponges belonging to the family Halichondriidae. These are massive, amorphous sponges with clearly separated inner and outer skeletons consisting of bundles of spicules arranged in a seemingly random pattern.

pecies

*"Halichondria adelpha"
*"Halichondria agglomerans"
*"Halichondria aldabrensis"
*"Halichondria arenacea"
*"Halichondria arenosa"
*"Halichondria armata"
*"Halichondria aspera"
*"Halichondria attenuata"
*"Halichondria axinelloides"
*"Halichondria bergquistae"
*"Halichondria bowerbanki"
*"Halichondria brunnea"
*"Halichondria cebimarensis"
*"Halichondria coerulea"
*"Halichondria colossea"
*"Halichondria contorta"
*"Halichondria convolvens"
*"Halichondria cornuloides"
*"Halichondria corrugata"
*"Halichondria cristata"
*"Halichondria cylindrata"
*"Halichondria darwinensis"
*"Halichondria diversispiculata"
*"Halichondria dubia"
*"Halichondria fragilis"
*"Halichondria glabrata"
*"Halichondria granulata"
*"Halichondria heterorhaphis"
*"Halichondria incrustans"
*"Halichondria intermedia"
*"Halichondria knowltoni"
*"Halichondria labiata"
*"Halichondria lambei"
*"Halichondria lendenfeldi"
*"Halichondria leuconoides"
*"Halichondria longispicula"
*"Halichondria lutea"
*"Halichondria magniconulosa"
*"Halichondria melanodocia"
*"Halichondria miggottea"
*"Halichondria minuta"
*"Halichondria moorei"
*"Halichondria normani"
*"Halichondria oblonga"
*"Halichondria osculum"
*"Halichondria oshoro"
*"Halichondria panicea"
*"Halichondria pelliculata"
*"Halichondria phakellioides"
*"Halichondria prostrata"
*"Halichondria renieroides"
*"Halichondria ridleyi"
*"Halichondria semitubulosa"
*"Halichondria sitiens"
*"Halichondria stylata"
*"Halichondria sulfurea"
*"Halichondria surrubicunda"
*"Halichondria syringea"
*"Halichondria tenebrica"
*"Halichondria tenera"
*"Halichondria tenuiderma"
*"Halichondria tenuiramosa"
*"Halichondria tenuispiculata"
*"Halichondria vansoesti"
*"Halichondria velamentosa"

References

* [http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=131807 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]