# Crambeidae

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{{Short description|Family of sponges}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Crambe crambe G.Picchetti.jpg
|image_caption = ''Crambe crambe''
|taxon = Crambeidae
|authority = Lévi, 1963
|subdivision_ranks = Genera
|subdivision = See text
}}

'''Crambeidae''' is a [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of marine [demosponge](/source/demosponge)s.<ref name=WoRMS>[http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=169016World Register of Marine Species]</ref>

Identification of members of this family of sponges is based on microscopic examination of the [spicules](/source/Sponge_spicule) in their skeleton. The [megasclere](/source/megasclere)s consist of peripheral thinner [subtylostyle](/source/subtylostyle)s and thicker [choanosomal](/source/choanosomal) styles while the [microsclere](/source/microsclere)s are exclusively [anchorate](/source/anchorate) [chelae](/source/Chela_(organ)).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=sponges&id=88&menuentry=groepen|title=Marine Species Identification Portal : Family Crambeidae}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQoxzqjQXWEC&pg=PA520|title=Systema Porifera| isbn=9780306472602|last1=Hooper|first1=John N. A.|last2=Van Soest|first2=Rob W. M.|last3=Willenz|first3=Philippe|date=2002-11-30|page=520}}</ref>

==Genera==
[[File:Monanchora unguifera (Pink Lumpy sponge).jpg|thumb|right|220px|''[Monanchora arbuscula](/source/Monanchora_arbuscula)'']]
*''[Crambe](/source/Crambe_(sponge))'' <small>Vosmaer, 1880</small>
*''[Discorhabdella](/source/Discorhabdella)'' <small>[Dendy](/source/Arthur_Dendy), 1924</small>
*''[Lithochela](/source/Lithochela)'' <small>Burton, 1929</small>
*''[Monanchora](/source/Monanchora)'' <small>Carter, 1883</small><ref name=WoRMS/>

==References==
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