Heteropiidae

{{Short description|Family of sponges}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Heteropiidae

| authority = Dendy, 1893

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = * Grantessa Lendenfeld, 1885

• Heteropia Carter, 1886
• Paraheteropia Borojevic, 1965
• Sycettusa Haeckel, 1872
• Syconessa Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000
• Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1893

}}

Heteropiidae is a family of sea sponges in the order Leucosolenida in the class Calcarea.{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131615|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Heteropiidae Dendy, 1893|website=www.marinespecies.org|access-date=2019-03-20}} In a 2012 paper, Oliver Voigt, Eilika Wülfing and Gert Wörheide (2012) confirmed that the family Heteropiidae is not monophyletic.{{Cite journal|last1=Voigt|first1=O.|last2=Wülfing|first2=E.|last3=Wörheide|first3=G.|date=2012-03-27|editor-last=Steinke|editor-first=D.|title=Molecular Phylogenetic Evaluation of Classification and Scenarios of Character Evolution in Calcareous Sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea)|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=7|issue=3|pages=e33417|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0033417|issn=1932-6203|pmc=3314023|pmid=22479395|bibcode=2012PLoSO...733417V|doi-access=free}}