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Forcepia
Sign in to saveForcepia is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Coelosphaeridae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
- OrderPoecilosclerida
- FamilyCoelosphaeridae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 227
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Coelosphaeridae
- Collections
- ICML-UNAM, CAS, USNM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, South Africa
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Coelosphaeridae
- Image
- Forcepia (Forcepia) vansoesti.jpg
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- Commons category
- Forcepia
- taxon name
- Forcepia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Forcepia
- taxon author citation
- Carter, 1874
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Forcepia is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Coelosphaeridae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forcepia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.