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Heteropiidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Calcarea
Order:	Leucosolenida
Family:	Heteropiidae Dendy, 1893
Genera
Grantessa Lendenfeld, 1885 Heteropia Carter, 1886 Paraheteropia Borojevic, 1965 Sycettusa Haeckel, 1872 Syconessa Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000 Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1893

Heteropiidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Leucosolenida in the class Calcarea. In a 2012 paper, Oliver Voigt, Eilika Wülfing and Gert Wörheide (2012) confirmed that the family Heteropiidae is not monophyletic.

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Heteropiidae Dendy, 1893". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
2. Voigt, O.; Wülfing, E.; Wörheide, G. (2012-03-27). Steinke, D. (ed.). "Molecular Phylogenetic Evaluation of Classification and Scenarios of Character Evolution in Calcareous Sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea)". PLOS ONE. 7 (3): e33417. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...733417V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033417. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3314023. PMID 22479395.

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