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Name

Sycon

Framing

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Calcarea

Genus: Sycon

Habitat

Marine, benthic associated with hard bottoms

Feeding

Filter feeder

Distribution

Cosmopolitan

Additional information

Barrel-shaped calcaroneae with a crown of spicules surrounding the osculum. Syconoid organization

Additional information

Bibliography

Van Soest, R. W. M; Klautau, M. (2021). Case 3836 – Sycon Risso, 1827 (Porifera, Sycettidae): proposed conservation of the genus name. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 78(2): 69-77