Crambeidae

Crambeidae is a family of marine demosponges.^[1]

Crambeidae
Crambe crambe
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Poecilosclerida
Family:	Crambeidae Lévi, 1963
Genera
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Identification of members of this family of sponges is based on microscopic examination of the spicules in their skeleton. The megascleres consist of peripheral thinner subtylostyles and thicker choanosomal styles while the microscleres are exclusively anchorate chelae.^[2][3]

Genera

Monanchora arbuscula

• Crambe Vosmaer, 1880
• Discorhabdella Dendy, 1924
• Lithochela Burton, 1929
• Monanchora Carter, 1883^[1]