Polymastiidae

Polymastiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Hadromerida
Family:	Polymastiidae; Gray, 1867
genera include
	Acanthopolymastia; Atergia; Polymastia; Proteleia; Quasillina; Radiella; Ridleia; Sphaerotylus; Spinularia; Tentorina; Tentorium; Trichostemma; Tylexocladus; Vosmaeria

Polymastiidae is a family of demosponges found in oceans throughout the world. A useful diagnostic characteristic of members of this family is the presence of numerous surface papillae although this feature is shown by some other sponges.

References

North East Atlantic Taxa
Michelle Kelly-Borges & Patricia R. Bergquist (1997). "Revision of Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent, and Acanthopolymastia gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 31 (3): 367–402. doi:10.1080/00288330.1997.9516772.

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