Crella elegans

Crella elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Suborder: Myxillina
Family: Crellidae
Genus: Crella
Subgenus: Crella (Crella)
Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Crella elegans
(Schmidt, 1862)[1]
Synonyms
  • Crella (Crella) elegans
  • Cribrella elegans Schmidt, 1862
  • Kowalewskyella gracilis Swartschewsky, 1905

Crella elegans is a species of marine demosponges in the family Crellidae found in the Adriatic. It is the type species of its genus. It is the host of the ectoparasitic Cryptopontius capitalis

References

  1. Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7. page(s): 38

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