Agelas

Agelas
Orange elephant ear sponge, Agelas clathrodes, in foreground. Two soft corals in the background: a sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Agelasida
Family: Agelasidae
Genus: Agelas
Duchassaing & Michelotti [it], 1864 [1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
List
  • Chalinopsis Schmidt, 1870
  • Ectyon Gray, 1867
  • Oroidea Gray, 1867
  • Pachychalinopsis Schmidt, 1880
  • Siphonochalinopsis Schmidt, 1880

Agelas is a genus of sea sponge in the class Demospongiae.

  1. ^ van Soest, Rob (2012). 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.). "Agelas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-08-01.