Hemimycale columella

Hemimycale columella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Family: Hymedesmiidae
Genus: Hemimycale
Species:
H. columella
Binomial name
Hemimycale columella
Bowerbank, 1874
Synonyms
  • Desmacidon columella Bowerbank, 1874
  • Stylinos columella Topsent, 1894
  • Stylotella columella Lendenfield, 1895
  • Prianus columella de Laubenfels, 1932

Hemimycale columella, the crater sponge, is a species of marine demosponge in the family Hymedesmiidae. It is the type species of the genus Hemimycale and is widely distributed across the Atlanto-Mediterranean region.

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