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 | |
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Petrosia ficiformis | |
Scientific 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
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Species:[1]
- Petrosia alfiani de Voogd & van Soest, 2002
- Petrosia armata (Lendenfeld, 1887)
- Petrosia australis Bergquist & Warne, 1980
References
edit- ^ a b c "Petrosia Vosmaer, 1885". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ Lee, Yeon-Ju; Cho, Yeonwoo; Tran, Huynh Nguyen Khanh (2021). "Secondary Metabolites from the Marine Sponges of the Genus Petrosia: A Literature Review of 43 Years of Research". Marine Drugs. 19 (3): 122. doi:10.3390/md19030122. PMC 7996255. PMID 33668842.