Spongites yendoi

Spongites yendoi
Spongites yendoi together with the gardening limpet Scutellastra cochlear
Scientific classification
Clade: Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Corallinales
Family: Corallinaceae
Genus: Spongites
Species:
S. yendoi
Binomial name
Spongites yendoi
(Foslie) Y.M. Chamberlain 1993
Synonyms
  • Goniolithon yendoi Foslie, 1900
  • Lithophyllum natalense Foslie, 1907
  • Lithophyllum yendoi (Foslie) Foslie, 1900
  • Lithophyllum yendoi f. mahëicum Foslie, 1906
  • Lithophyllum yendoi f. malaysicum Foslie, 1906
  • Lithothamnion yendoi (Foslie) Lemoine, 1965
  • Pseudolithophyllum natalense (Foslie) Adey, 1970
  • Pseudolithophyllum yendoi (Foslie) Adey, 1970

Spongites yendoi is a species of crustose red seaweed with a hard, calcareous skeleton in the family Corallinaceae. It is found on the lower shore as part of a diverse community in the southeastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific Oceans.