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Porifera
taxon (Animalia) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Porifera (nomen a Roberto Edmundo Grant anno 1836 statutum) est animalium phylum, spongias comprehendens, cui subphyla duo attribuuntur, videlicet Cellularia et Symplasma.
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Subdivisiones: classis
* Calcarea
- Demospongiae
- Hexactinellida
- Homoscleromorpha
- Archaeocyatha † (?)
- Stromatoporida †
Synonyma
* Spongiae Haeckel, 1866
- Spongiaria Claus, 1897