Citronia

{{Short description|Genus of sponges}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Citronia | authority = de Cook & Bergquist, 2002<ref name=I>de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2002). Family Dysideidae Gray, 1867. In Hooper, J., van Soest, R. & Willenz, P. (Eds.), ''Systema Porifera'' (pp. 1061–1066). Boston, MA: Springer.</ref> }}

'''''Citronia''''' is a genus of sea sponges in the family Dysideidae. It consists of one species, '''''Citronia vasiformis''''' <small>(Bergquist, 1995)</small>, which Bergquist originally described as ''Euryspongia vasiformis<small>,</small>''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Species ''Citronia vasiformis'' (Bergquist, 1995) |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Citronia_vasiformis |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Australian Government}}</ref><ref name=II>Bergquist, P. R. (1995). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40059814 Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, and Verongida from the New Caledonia lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae)]. ''Memoirs of the Queensland Museum'', 38(1), 1–51 [28].</ref> from a specimen found in the Baie de Citrons, New Caledonia at a depth of 8 to10 m.<ref name=":0" />

In Australia it is found in waters off the Queensland coast.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Genus ''Citronia'' Cook & Bergquist, 2002 |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Citronia |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Australian Government}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.gbif.org/species/2238552 ''Citronia'': Occurrence data] from GBIF

Category:Dictyoceratida Category:Monotypic sponge genera Category:Taxa named by Patricia Bergquist Category:Taxa described in 2002