Leiospongia d'Orbigny 1849 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Agelasida - Pharetrospongiidae

Synonym: Leiofungia Fromentel 1859

Parent taxon: Leiofungiinae according to B. Senowbari-Daryan and J. K. Rigby 2015

See also Finks et al. 2004, Laube 1865, Sepkoski 2002 and West et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Aulacopagia, Elasmopagia, Grossotubenella, Leonopagia, Loenopagia, Radicanalospongia

Subtaxa: Leiofungia radiciformis Leiofungia reticularis Leiofungia rugosa Leiospongia alpina Leiospongia polymorpha Leiospongia verrucosa

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Type: Achilleum verrucosum

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Hungary (1 collection), Italy (6)

Total: 7 collections including 17 occurrences

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