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Porifera (Sea Sponges)

 

Class: Calcarea

Order: Leucosolenida

Family: Lelapiidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Kebira uteoides Row, 1909 - (rediscovered) Red Sea Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Syconidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Sycetta primitiva Haeckel, 1872 - ? Antarctica Missing Access

 

 

Class: Demospongiae

Order: Axinellida

Family: Raspailiidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Sollasella cervicornis (Burton, 1959) - (rediscovered) East African Coral Coast, Gulf of Aden & western Arabian Sea Rediscovered Access

 

Order: Clionaida

Family: Clionaidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Cliona patera Hardwicke, 1822 Neptune's cup (rediscovered) Cambodia, Indonesia & Singapore Rediscovered Access

 

 

Order: Poecilosclerida

Family: Dendoricellidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Fibulia myxillioides (Burton, 1932) - (rediscovered) SW Atlantic Ocean  Rediscovered Access

 

 

Order: Tetractinellida

Family: Scleritodermidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Setidium obtectum Schmidt, 1879 - (rediscovered) Caribbean Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Tetillidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Tetilla radiata Selenka, 1879 - (rediscovered) Guanabara Bay (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State) & São Sebastião Channel, São Paulo, both Brazil Rediscovered Access

 

Statistics

Conservation status Number of taxa (in percentage)
   
Extinct 0
Missing 1 (14.23%)
Extinct in the Wild 0
Possibly Extinct in the Wild 0
Globally Rediscovered 6 (85.77%)
Rediscovered in the Wild 0
Hypothetical 0
Invalid 0
Erroneously listed 0
Uncertain status 0
   
Total 7

 

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