Mysterium (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa

Parent taxon: Hexactinosa according to R.E.H. Reid 2004

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aphrocallistidae, Aulocalycidae, Auloplacidae, Caesaria, Carinthiaspongus, Caseispongia, Clavularia, Cribrospongiidae, Cystispongiidae, Emplocidae, Euretidae, Euryplegmatidae, Farreidae, Furcicanalis, Idiodictyon, Imbricareola, Laocaetis, Misonia, Multiloqua, Octobrum, Pileolitoidea, Pillaraspongioidea, Polysyge, Porospongia, Rhogostomium, Rhombedonium, Scopularia, Scotospongia, Staurodermatidae, Tesselispongia, Tremaphorus, Tretodictyidae, Vermifistula, Xenoschrammenus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mysterium in the database

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