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Plakinidae

{{Short description|Family of sponges}}

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| image= Reef3809 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg

| image_caption = Plakortis sp.

| taxon = Plakinidae

| authority = Schulze, 1880

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = see text

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Plakinidae is a family of marine sponges. It is composed of eight genera:{{cite WoRMS | author = van Soest, R. | year = 2014 | title = Plakinidae Schulze, 1880 | id = 131661 | accessdate = 2014-05-22 | db = porifera }}

Plakinidae and Oscarellidae are the two families that compose the fourth and smallest class of the porifera phylum, Homoscleromorpha.{{Cite journal|last1=Gazave|first1=Eve|last2=Lapébie|first2=Pascal|last3=Ereskovsky|first3=Alexander V.|last4=Vacelet|first4=Jean|last5=Renard|first5=Emmanuelle|last6=Cárdenas|first6=Paco|last7=Borchiellini|first7=Carole|date=2012-05-01|title=No longer Demospongiae: Homoscleromorpha formal nomination as a fourth class of Porifera|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01456632/file/Gazave%20et_2012-%20class.pdf|journal=Hydrobiologia|language=en|volume=687|issue=1|pages=3–10|doi=10.1007/s10750-011-0842-x|bibcode=2012HyBio.687....3G |issn=1573-5117}}

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Category:Homoscleromorpha

Category:Sponge families