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Parent Taxon

• Poecilosclerida

Sibling Taxa

• Acarnidae
• Chondropsidae
• Cladorhizidae
• Coelosphaeridae
• Crambeidae
• Crellidae
• Dendoricellidae
• Desmacididae
• Desmoxyidae
• Esperiopsidae
• Guitarridae
• Hymedesmiidae
• Iotrochotidae
• Isodictyidae
• Latrunculiidae
• Microcionidae
• Mycalidae
• Myxillidae
• Phellodermidae
• Podospongiidae
• Tedaniidae

Child Taxa

• Microcioninae
• Ophlitaspongiinae

Top Observation Places

• Victoria