Petrosia

Petrosia is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Petrosiidae. [1] Petrosia are well distributed from temperate zone waters to tropical and from intertidal zone to deep waters.[2]

Petrosia
Peltodoris atromaculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Haplosclerida
Family: Petrosiidae
Genus: Petrosia
Vosmaer, 1885

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

Species

Species:[1]

  • Petrosia alfiani de Voogd & van Soest, 2002
  • Petrosia armata (Lendenfeld, 1887)
  • Petrosia australis Bergquist & Warne, 1980

References
  1. "Petrosia Vosmaer, 1885". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  2. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/19/3/122
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