Template:Taxonomy/Porifera/?

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Ancestral taxa
Domain:	Eukaryota	/displayed	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Amorphea		[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Obazoa		[Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked):	Opisthokonta		[Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked):	Holozoa		[Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked):	Filozoa		[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Choanozoa		[Taxonomy; edit]
Kingdom:	Animalia		[Taxonomy; edit]
Phylum:	Porifera (?)	/?	[Taxonomy; edit]

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Parent:	Animalia [Taxonomy; edit]
Rank:	phylum (displays as Phylum)
Link:	Sponge|Porifera (?)(links to Sponge)
Extinct:	no
Always displayed:	yes (major rank)
Taxonomic references:	Sponge Paraphyly is now "generally accepted" (according to, for example, the article at Porifera). For a recent reference summarizing this perspective, see Nielsen, Claus (2010). Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla (third ed.). ISBN 9780199606023.. This should be denoted in the link by double quotation marks ("").
Parent's taxonomic references:	Adl, Sina M.; Bass, David; Lane, Christopher E.; Lukeš, Julius; Schoch, Conrad L.; Smirnov, Alexey; Agatha, Sabine; Berney, Cedric; Brown, Matthew W. (2018-09-26). "Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 66 (1): 4–119. doi:10.1111/jeu.12691. PMC 6492006. PMID 30257078. Tikhonenkov DV, Mikhailov KV, Hehenberger E, Mylnikov AP, Aleoshin VV, Keeling PJ, et al. (2020). "New Lineage of Microbial Predators Adds Complexity to Reconstructing the Evolutionary Origin of Animals". Current Biology. 30 (22): 4500–4509. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.061. PMID 32976804.
Same as taxon:	Porifera [Taxonomy; edit]
For the suffix "/?", see Questionable assignments.