# Merliida

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{{Short description|Order of sponges}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Merliida
| authority = [Vacelet](/source/Jean_Vacelet), 1979<ref name=vacelet>Vacelet, J. 1979. Description et affinités d’une éponge sphinctozoaire actuelle. Pp. 483-493. In: Lévi, C. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Biologie des Spongiaires - Sponge Biology. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 291. (Centre National de laRecherche Scientifique: Paris).</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision = 
* [Hamacanthidae](/source/Hamacanthidae) <small>Gray, 1872</small>
* [Merliidae](/source/Merliidae) <small>Kirkpatrick, 1908</small>
}}

'''Merliida''' is an order of [demosponge](/source/demosponge)s in the subclass [Heteroscleromorpha](/source/Heteroscleromorpha), first described as such by [Jean Vacelet](/source/Jean_Vacelet) in 1979.<ref>van Soest, R. (2015). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=845502 Merliida.] In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J. L. (2016). World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-02-17.</ref><ref name=vacelet/>

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Category:Heteroscleromorpha
Category:Sponge orders
Category:Taxa named by Jean Vacelet

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