🦋 Family

Callyspongiidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Porifera › Demospongiae › Haplosclerida › Callyspongiidae

Callyspongia plicifera, the azure vase sponge, is a vase-shaped Caribbean demosponge with a high regeneration rate after fish grazing.

Callyspongia crassa, the prickly tube-sponge, is a Red Sea sponge used in medicine and ecologically important to reefs.

Callyspongia aculeata is a demosponge species found in the Caribbean, Florida, Bermuda, and the Bahamas, growing at 20 to 24°C.

Related Families

Niphatidae 3 species Petrosiidae 3 species Chalinidae 2 species

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