Mycale (sponge)

Mycale
Orange Icing Sponge (Mycale laevis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Poecilosclerida
Family: Mycalidae
Genus: Mycale
Gray, 1867

Mycale is a genus of demosponges with 245 recognised species in 12 subgenera. It has been a large genus with multiple subdivisions since it was first described in 1867.

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