Rank Species | Class Demospongiae Genus Racekiela Phylum Porifera Order Haplosclerida | |
Racekiela ryderi is a species of freshwater demosponge in the family Spongillidae. It was first described by Edward Potts in 1882. It was collected on Sable Island in 1899 by John Macoun, a biologist with the Geological Survey of Canada, and given the name Heteromeyenia macouni by A.H. Mackay in 1900, is now considered to be Racekiela ryderi.
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