• Source: Axinellidae

Axinellidae is a family of sponges in the order Axinellida.
This family includes some photo-synthetic sponges that occur throughout the world's coral reefs. They are amongst the more common sponges seen in the aquarium trade but are usually not successful species in captivity and not ones that thrive in the small household tank environment. They are common throughout the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean coral reefs. Species which derive their nutrition from sunlight must stay fairly close to the surface in order for their zooxanthellae to synthesize light into the sugars these sponges use to survive.




Genera


There are ten genera:

Axinella Schmidt, 1862
Cymbastela Hooper & Bergquist, 1992
Dragmacidon Hallmann, 1917
Dragmaxia Hallmann, 1916
Ophiraphidites Carter, 1876
Pararhaphoxya Burton, 1934
Phycopsis Carter, 1883
Pipestela Alvarez, Hooper & van Soest, 2008
Ptilocaulis Carter, 1883
Reniochalina Lendenfeld, 1888




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Axinella
• Axinella massalis
• Axinella hirondellei
• Auletta andamanensis
• Dragmacidon agariciforme
• Axinella convexa
• Axinella crinite
• Axinella bubarinoides
• Axinella blanca
• Axinella amorpha
• Axinellidae
• Axinellida
• List of sponges of Ireland
• Axinella
• Axinella loribellae
• Axinella badungensis
• Axinella damicornis
• Pipestela rara
• Pipestela candelabra
• Pipestela terpenensis