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| Hamacantha | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Merliida |
| Family: | Hamacanthidae |
| Genus: | Hamacantha (Gray, 1867) |
| Type species | |
| Hamacantha johnsoni (Bowerbank, 1864)
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| Subgenera and species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Hamacantha is a genus of sponges in the family Hamacanthidae. This species in this genus differ from those in the other genera in this family through the presence of diancistras, distinctive microscleres.[2] These are thought to aid in framing the skeleton by joining monactine megascleres (that is megascleres that grow in only a single direction).[3] This genus contains 30 species in three subgenera.[4]
- ^ "Hamacantha". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ Uriz, María Jesús (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope of Namibia (south-west Africa). Classes Hexactinellida and Demospongiae (PDF). CSIC-Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM).
- ^ Uriz, Maria J.; Turon, Xavier; Becerro, Mikel A. (2003), Müller, Werner E. G. (ed.), "Silica Deposition in Demosponges", Silicon Biomineralization: Biology — Biochemistry — Molecular Biology — Biotechnology, Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 163–193, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55486-5_7, ISBN 978-3-642-55486-5, retrieved 2021-07-22
- ^ "Hamacantha". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 July 2021.