Merliida

{{Short description|Order of sponges}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Merliida

| authority = Vacelet, 1979Vacelet, J. 1979. Description et affinités d’une éponge sphinctozoaire actuelle. Pp. 483-493. In: Lévi, C. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Biologie des Spongiaires - Sponge Biology. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 291. (Centre National de laRecherche Scientifique: Paris).

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision =

• Hamacanthidae Gray, 1872
• Merliidae Kirkpatrick, 1908

}}

Merliida is an order of demosponges in the subclass Heteroscleromorpha, first described as such by Jean Vacelet in 1979.van Soest, R. (2015). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=845502 Merliida.] In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J. L. (2016). World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2017-02-17.