Agelas

Agelas
Orange elephant ear sponge, Agelas clathrodes, in foreground. Two soft corals in the background: a sea fan, Iciligorgia schrammi, and a sea rod, Plexaurella nutans.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Agelasida
Family: Agelasidae
Genus: Agelas
Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Species
See text
Synonyms
List
  • Chalinopsis Schmidt, 1870
  • Ectyon Gray, 1867
  • Oroidea Gray, 1867
  • Pachychalinopsis Schmidt, 1880
  • Siphonochalinopsis Schmidt, 1880

Agelas is a genus of sea sponge in the class Demospongiae.

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