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Agelas dispar

Agelas dispar

Classification

Agelas dispar is a species of demosponge in the family Agelasidae. It lives on shallow-water reefs in the Caribbean Sea and around the West Indies. Taxonomy Agelas dispar is the type species of the genus and was first described in 1864 by the French naturalist Édouard Placide Duchassaing de Fontbressin and the Italian naturalist Giovanni Michelotti.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 42Cuba · 36United States of America · 14France · 13Brazil · 1Mexico · 1Netherlands · 1