{{Short description|Family of sponges}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sponge.noaa.jpg | image_caption = '''Halichondria panicea''' | taxon = Halichondriidae | authority = Gray, 1867<ref>{{WRMS source | 7530 | Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII | 2014-04-30 }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | synonyms = {{hidden begin|title = List}} * Ciocalyptidae <small>Hentschel, 1923</small> * Hymeniacidonidae <small>Laubenfels, 1936</small> * Stylotellinae <small>Lendenfeld, 1888</small> {{hidden end}} }}

'''Halichondriidae''' is a family of sea sponges belonging to the order Suberitida.<ref>{{cite WoRMS |author= van Soest, R.|year= 2014|title= Halichondriidae Gray, 1867|id= 131633|access-date= 2014-04-30|db=porifera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/pdf/57/sm57n4283.pdf |title=A systematic revision of the central West Atlantic: Halichondrida (Demospongiae, Porifera). Part III: Description of valid species |access-date=2007-10-30 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033137/http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/pdf/57/sm57n4283.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> These sponges have a skeleton consisting of dense bundles of spicules occurring in a more or less random pattern.

==Genera== The following genera are recognised in the family Halichondriidae: * ''Amorphinopsis'' <small>Carter, 1887</small> * ''Axinyssa'' <small>Lendenfeld, 1897</small> * ''Ciocalapata'' <small>Laubenfels, 1936</small> * ''Ciocalypta'' <small>Bowerbank, 1862</small> * ''Cryptax'' <small>de Laubenfels, 1954</small> * ''Epipolasis'' <small>Laubenfels, 1936</small> * ''Halichondria'' <small>Fleming, 1828</small> * ''Hymeniacidon'' <small>Bowerbank, 1858</small> * ''Johannesia'' <small>Gerasimova, Erpenbeck & Plotkin, 2008</small> * ''Laminospongia'' <small>Pulitzer-Finali, 1983</small> * ''Sarcomella'' <small>Schmidt, 1868</small> * ''Semisuberites'' <small>Carter, 1877</small> * ''Spongosorites'' <small>Topsent, 1896</small> * ''Topsentia'' <small>Berg, 1899</small> * ''Vosmaeria'' <small>Fristedt, 1885</small>

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Category:Halichondrida Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray

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