Dictyoceratida
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| A commensal amphipod emerges from a Stinking Vase Sponge (Ircinia campana) collected during the first dive of the Islands in the Stream 2002 mission at the St. Augustine Scarp. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Subclass: | Ceractinomorpha |
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Dictyoceratida Minchin, 1900 |
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Dictyoceratida is an order of sponges in the subclass Ceractinomorpha containing five families. Along with the Dendroceratida, it is one of the two orders of demosponges that make up the keratose or "horny" sponges, in which a mineral skeleton is minimal or absent and a skeleton of organic fibers containing spongin, a collagen-like material, is present instead.
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