Kingdom Animalia Class Demospongiae Genus Willardia Rank Species | Phylum Porifera Order Hadromerida Scientific name Willardia caicosensis | |
Family Acanthochaetetidae, originally Timeidae | ||
Willardia caicosensis is a deep sea sclerosponge (coralline sponge) from Turks and Caicos Islands. It was first described by Philippe Willenz of the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique in Brussels, Belgium and Shirley Pomponi, now of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic University.
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