Phorbas (sponge)

Phorbas
Phorbas tenacior
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Family: Hymedesmiidae
Genus: Phorbas
Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Species

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Synonyms
  • Anchinoe (Gray, 1867)
  • Bipocillopsis (Koltun, 1964)
  • Clathrissa (Lendenfeld, 1888)
  • Grayax (Laubenfels, 1936)
  • Lissopocillon (Ferrer-Hernandez, 1916)
  • Merriamium (Laubenfels, 1936)
  • Plumohalichondria (Carter, 1876)
  • Podotuberculum (Bakus, 1966)
  • Pronax sensu (Gray, 1867)
  • Pronaxella (Burton, 1931')
  • Stylostichon (Topsent, 1892)
  • Suberotelites (Schmidt, 1868)

Phorbas is a genus of demosponges belonging to the family Hymedesmiidae. The chemical Muironolide A was extracted from a species in this genus.

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