Hymeniacidon is a genus of sea sponges in the class Demospongiae. Some members of the genus are known to be mobile, achieving speeds of between 1 and 4 mm per day.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Hymeniacidon:
- Hymeniacidon actites <small>(Ristau, 1978)</small>
- Hymeniacidon addreissiformis <small>Dickinson, 1945</small>
- Hymeniacidon agminata <small>Ridley, 1884</small>
- Hymeniacidon assimilis <small>Levinsen, 1887</small>
- Hymeniacidon atlantica <small>Burton, 1948</small>
- Hymeniacidon burtoni <small>Van Soest & Hooper, 2020</small>
- Hymeniacidon caerula <small>Pulitzer-Finali, 1986</small>
- Hymeniacidon calcifera <small>Row, 1911</small>
- Hymeniacidon calva <small>(Ridley, 1881)</small>
- Hymeniacidon centrotyla <small>Hentschel, 1914</small>
- Hymeniacidon chloris <small>de Laubenfels, 1950</small>
- Hymeniacidon conica <small>(Kirk, 1909)</small>
- Hymeniacidon corticata <small>(Thiele, 1905)</small>
- Hymeniacidon digitata <small>(Hansen, 1885)</small>
- Hymeniacidon dubia <small>Burton, 1932</small>
- Hymeniacidon dystacta <small>de Laubenfels, 1954</small>
- Hymeniacidon fallax <small>Bowerbank, 1886</small>
- Hymeniacidon fasciculata <small>(Fristedt, 1887)</small>
- Hymeniacidon fernandezi <small>Thiele, 1905</small>
- Hymeniacidon flaccida <small>Pulitzer-Finali, 1996</small>
- Hymeniacidon flavia <small>Sim & Lee, 2003</small>
- Hymeniacidon fristedti <small>(Topsent, 1913)</small>
- Hymeniacidon glabrata <small>Burton, 1954</small>
- Hymeniacidon gracilis <small>(Hentschel, 1912)</small>
- Hymeniacidon halichondroides <small>(Thiele, 1898)</small>
- Hymeniacidon heliophila <small>Parker, 1910</small>
- Hymeniacidon hentscheli <small>Fernandez, Bravo-Gómez, Cárdenas & Hajdu, 2020</small>
- Hymeniacidon iberica <small>(Ferrer-Hernandez, 1914)</small>
- Hymeniacidon informis <small>(Burton, 1913)</small>
- Hymeniacidon insutus <small>Koltun, 1964</small>
- Hymeniacidon kerguelensis <small>Hentschel, 1914</small>
- Hymeniacidon kitchingi <small>(Burton, 1935)</small>
- Hymeniacidon longistylus <small>Desqueyroux, 1972</small>
- Hymeniacidon luxurians <small>(Lieberkuhn, 1859)</small>
- Hymeniacidon mixta <small>(Sara, 1958)</small>
- Hymeniacidon ovalae <small>Tanita & Hoshino, 1989</small>
- Hymeniacidon perlevis <small>(Montagu, 1818)</small> crumb-of-bread sponge
- Hymeniacidon petrosioides <small>Dendy, 1905</small>
- Hymeniacidon plumigera <small>Bowerbank, 1874</small>
- Hymeniacidon proteus <small>(Ridley, 1884)</small>
- Hymeniacidon racemosa <small>Brondsted, 1924</small>
- Hymeniacidon reptans <small>(Cuartas, 1991)</small>
- Hymeniacidon rigida <small>Dendy, 1897</small>
- Hymeniacidon rubiginosa <small>Thiele, 1905</small>
- Hymeniacidon rugosa <small>(Schmidt, 1868)</small>
- Hymeniacidon simplex <small>(Bowerbank, 1866)</small>
- Hymeniacidon simplicima <small>(Bowerbank, 1874)</small>
- Hymeniacidon sinapium <small>Laubenfels, 1930</small>
- Hymeniacidon sphaerodigitata <small>Bergquist, 1970</small>
- Hymeniacidon stylifera <small>(Stephens, 1915)</small>
- Hymeniacidon sublittoralis <small>Samaai & Gibbons, 2005</small>
- Hymeniacidon timonovi <small>(Rezvoi, 1931)</small>
- Hymeniacidon torquata <small>Topsent, 1916</small>
- Hymeniacidon ungodon <small>de Laubenfels, 1932</small>
- Hymeniacidon upaonassu <small>Fortunato, Pérez & Lôbo-Hajdu, 2020</small>
- Hymeniacidon variospiculata <small>Dendy, 1922</small>
- Hymeniacidon zosterae <small>Row, 1911</small>
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