{{Short description|Family of sponges}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Mycale laevis (Orange Icing Sponge) growing under a hard coral.jpg | image_caption = Orange Icing Sponge (''Mycale laevis'') growing on a coral reef | taxon = Mycalidae | authority = Lundbeck, 1905 <ref name=worms>{{cite WoRMS |author=van Soest, Rob |year=2010 |title=Mycalidae |id=131649 |accessdate=2011-12-22 |db=}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = {{center|See text}} | synonyms = * Arenochalininae <small>Lendenfeld, 1888</small> * Esperellinae <small>Ridley & Dendy, 1887</small> * Esperiadae <small>Gray, 1867</small> }}
'''Mycalidae''' is a family of marine demosponges.
==Genera== According to the World Register of Marine Species, there are only two genera in this family. Previously there were about 26, but most of these have been reallocated as sub-genera of the remaining two genera, ''Mycale ''and ''Phlyctaenopora:<ref name="worms" />''
*Genus ''Mycale''<small> Gray, 1867</small> **subgenus ''Mycale (Aegogropila)'' <small>Gray, 1867</small> - About 37 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Anomomycale)''<small> Topsent, 1924</small> - Monotypic. ***Species ''Mycale (Anomomycale) titubans''<small> (Schmidt, 1870)</small> **Subgenus ''Mycale (Arenochalina)''<small> Lendenfeld, 1887</small> - About 13 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Carmia)''<small> Gray, 1867</small> - About 46 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Grapelia)''<small> Gray, 1867</small> - About 9 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Mycale)''<small> Gray, 1867</small> - About 45 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Naviculina)''<small> Gray, 1867</small> - About 11 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Oxymycale)''<small> Hentschel, 1929</small> - About 9 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Paresperella)''<small> Dendy, 1905</small> - About 18 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Rhaphidotheca)''<small> Kent, 1870</small> - About 4 species. **Subgenus ''Mycale (Zygomycale)''<small> Topsent, 1931</small> - About 3 species. **Unallocated ''Mycale'': About 33 species. *Genus ''Phlyctaenopora''<small> Topsent, 1904</small> **Subgenus ''Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia)''<small> Dendy, 1922</small> - 2 species. ***Species ''Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia) bocagei''<small> Lévi & Lévi, 1983</small> ***Species ''Phlyctaenopora (Barbozia) primitiva''<small> (Dendy, 1922)</small> **Subgenus ''Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora)''<small> Topsent, 1904</small> - 2 species. ***Species ''Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora) bitorquis''<small> Topsent, 1904</small> ***Species ''Phlyctaenopora (Phlyctaenopora) halichondrioides''<small> van Soest & Stentoft, 1988</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Poecilosclerida Category:Demospongiae Category:Sponge families
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