Citronia

Citronia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Dictyoceratida
Family: Dysideidae
Genus: Citronia
de Cook & Bergquist, 2002

Citronia is a genus of sea sponges in the family Dysideidae. It consists of one species, Citronia vasiformis (Bergquist, 1995), which Bergquist originally described as Euryspongia vasiformis, from a specimen found in the Baie de Citrons, New Caledonia at a depth of 8 to10 m.

In Australia it is found in waters off the Queensland coast.

References

  1. ↑ de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2002). Family Dysideidae Gray, 1867. In Hooper, J., van Soest, R. & Willenz, P. (Eds.), Systema Porifera (pp. 1061–1066). Boston, MA: Springer.
  2. 1 2 "Species Citronia vasiformis (Bergquist, 1995)". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  3. ↑ Bergquist, P. R. (1995). Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, and Verongida from the New Caledonia lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 38(1), 1–51 [28].
  4. ↑ "Genus Citronia Cook & Bergquist, 2002". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2025-03-10.