Asbestopluma
{{Short description|Genus of sponges}}
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Asbestopluma is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Cladorhizidae.{{cite web |title=Asbestopluma Topsent, 1901 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2243463 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=8 April 2021 |language=en}}
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. They are typically found in deep water, however it is possible to find them in shallow water caves, as some have been observed in the Trois Pépés cave at La Ciotat (a commune in Marseille, France).{{Cite journal |last1=Bakran-Petricioli |first1=Tatjana |last2=Vacelet |first2=Jean |last3=Zibrowius |first3=Helmut |last4=Petricioli |first4=Donat |last5=Chevaldonné |first5=Pierre |last6=Raa |first6=Tonći |date=2007-09-10 |title=New data on the distribution of the 'deep-sea' sponges Asbestopluma hypogea and Oopsacas minuta in the Mediterranean Sea: New distribution data on Mediterranean 'deep-sea' sponges. |url=https://hal.science/hal-00093784/file/TBP2007.pdf |journal=Marine Ecology |language=en |volume=28 |pages=10–23 |doi=10.1111/j.1439-0485.2007.00179.x}} The sponge, along with the rest of the Cladorhizidae family is carnivorous, often being found in deep sea waters, in the Arctic and the Northwest Atlantic ocean.{{cite web |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/181/1/1/3926497 |title=A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |language=en |pages=1-7 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw022}}
- Asbestopluma agglutinans {{small|Vacelet, 2006}}
- Asbestopluma anisoplacochela {{small|Kelly & Vacelet, 2011}}
- Asbestopluma belgicae {{small|(Topsent, 1901)}}