| Axinellidae | |
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| Axinella polypoides | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Axinellida |
| Family: | Axinellidae Carter, 1875 |
| Genera | |
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10 genera (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Axinellidae is a family of sponges in the order Axinellida.
This family includes some photo-synthetic sponges that occur throughout the world's coral reefs. They are amongst the more common sponges seen in the aquarium trade but are usually not successful species in captivity and not ones that thrive in the small household tank environment. They are common throughout the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean coral reefs. Species which derive their nutrition from sunlight must stay fairly close to the surface in order for their zooxanthellae to synthesize light into the sugars these sponges use to survive.
Genera
There are ten genera:
- Axinella Schmidt, 1862
- Cymbastela Hooper & Bergquist, 1992
- Dragmacidon Hallmann, 1917
- Dragmaxia Hallmann, 1916
- Ophiraphidites Carter, 1876
- Pararhaphoxya Burton, 1934
- Phycopsis Carter, 1883
- Pipestela Alvarez, Hooper & van Soest, 2008
- Ptilocaulis Carter, 1883
- Reniochalina Lendenfeld, 1888
References
- Carter, H. J. (1875). Notes introductory to the study and classification of the Spongida. Part II. Proposed classification of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4(16): 126-145.
- ^ Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J, eds. (2022). "Axinellidae Carter, 1875". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
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