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Translingual
Etymology
New Latin plural of Demospongia.
Proper noun
Demospongiae
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Porifera – very many sponges.[1]
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- (class): Ceractinomorpha, Homoscleromorpha, Tetractinomorpha - orders in some systems
- Agelasida, Astrophorida, Chondrosiida, Dendroceratida, Dictyoceratida, Hadromerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida, Lithistida, Poecilosclerida, Spirophorida, Verongiida - orders[1]
References
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI