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Crella elegans

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Crella elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Family: Crellidae
Genus: Crella
Subgenus: Crella
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Crella elegans
(Schmidt, 1862)[1]
Synonyms
List
  • Crella (Crella) elegans (Schmidt, 1862)
  • 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 copepod Cryptopontius capitalis.

References

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  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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