cactus sponge

Acanthella acuta

Classification

Class: Demospongiae
Order: Bubarida
Family: Dictyonellidae

Acanthella is a genus of sponges in the family Dictyonellidae, which was first described in 1862 by Eduard Oscar Schmidt. The type species is Acanthella acuta Schmidt, 1862 (designated by Vosmaer in 1912).

Distribution

cactus sponge — (c) Juraj Ahel, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 957Spain · 64Italy · 21

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Juraj Ahel, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionAcanthella (sponge), Wikipedia contributors

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