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Spongicolidae
Family of crustaceans From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Spongicolidae is a family of glass sponge shrimp in the order Decapoda. There are about 8 genera and more than 40 described species in Spongicolidae.[1][2] Apart from the shallows-dwelling genus Microprosthema, the family consists of glass sponge infauna, living within the body cavity of the sponge, presumably for life with a few other sponge shrimp. The sponge infaunal species most often inhabit Euplectella sponges, but can be found in Hyalonema sieboldii, Dactylocalyx pumiceus, Regradella phoenix, and R. okinosena.[3]
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Genera
These eight genera belong to the family Spongicolidae:
- Engystenopus Alcock & Anderson, 1894
- Globospongicola Komai & Saito, 2006
- Microprosthema Stimpson, 1860
- Paraspongicola de Saint Laurent & Cleva, 1981
- Spongicola de Haan, 1844
- Spongicoloides Hansen, 1908
- Spongiocaris Bruce & Baba, 1973
- † Jilinicaris Schram, Shen, Vonk & Taylor, 2000
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