Willardia caicosensis

Willardia caicosensis is a species of deep sea sclerosponge (coralline sponge) from the 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.

Willardia caicosensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Clionaida
Family: Acanthochaetetidae
Genus: Willardia
Species:
W. caicosensis
Binomial name
Willardia caicosensis
Willenz & Pomponi, 1996

References
    • "Willardia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 22 August 2009.


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