Poecilosclerida {order} - Porifera; Demospongiae;

Poecilosclerida is an order of the demosponge class. It is the most speciose demosponge order with over 2200 species (World Porifera Database). It contains about 25 recognised families. They are characterised by having chelae microscleres, that is, the minute spicules scattered through the tissues, usually in the 10-60 μm range, have a shovel-like structure on the end. Most of the families are viviparous with parenchymella larvae that are uniformly ciliated. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	1,887	Public Records:	1,102
Specimens with Sequences:	1,416	Public Species:	279
Specimens with Barcodes:	885	Public BINs:	155
Species:	374
Species With Barcodes:	259
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Canada 232 Costa Rica 29 Philippines 2 United States 65 India 19 Myanmar 1 Panama 55 Portugal 7 South Africa 1 Antarctica 46 Vietnam 2 Colombia 1 New Zealand 34 Sweden 2