Acanthopolymastia
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | Polymastiida |
| Family: | Polymastiidae |
| Genus: | Acanthopolymastia & Bergquist, 1997 |
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Acanthopolymastia is a small genus of demosponges belonging to the family Polymastiidae. It has three describe species. These small, bristly, cushion-shaped sponges are only known from deep-sea sites (to a depth of 3400 m) in the southern oceans.
Species[]
Species include:
- Acanthopolymastia acanthoxa (Koltun, 1964)
- Acanthopolymastia bathamae Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997
- Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997
References[]
- Michelle Kelly-Borges & Patricia R. Bergquist (1997). "Revision of Southwest Pacific Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with descriptions of new species of Polymastia Bowerbank, Tylexocladus Topsent, and Acanthopolymastia gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia". . 31 (3): 367–402. doi:10.1080/00288330.1997.9516772.
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- Polymastiidae
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