Dysideidae

Dysideidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Dictyoceratida.

Dysideidae
Pleraplysilla spinifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Dictyoceratida
Family:	Dysideidae Gray, 1867[1]

Genera

• Citronia Cook & Bergquist, 2002[2]
• Dysidea Johnston, 1842[3]
• Euryspongia Row, 1911[4]
• Lamellodysidea Cook & Bergquist, 2002[2]
• Pleraplysilla Topsent, 1905[5]

References

1. Gray, J. E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Description of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867, 492–558.
2. de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2002). Family Dysideidae Gray, 1867. In Hooper, J., van Soest, R. & Willenz, P. (Eds.), Systema Porifera (pp. 1061–1066). Boston, MA: Springer.
3. Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars.
4. Row, R. W. H. (1911). Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from Collections made by Cyril Crossland, M. A., B. Sc., F. Z. S. (Communicated, with an Introduction, by Prof. W. A. Herdman, D. Sc., F. R. S., F. L. S.) – XIX. Report on the Sponges collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 1904–5. Part II. Non-Calcarea. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 31(208), 287–400.
5. Topsent, E. (1905). Étude sur les Dendoceratida. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale, 4(3).