Tethyidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tethyida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Tethyida

Familia: Tethyidae
Genera (14): Anthotethya – Burtonitethya – Columnitis – Halicometes – Laxotethya – Nucleotethya – Oxytethya – Stellitethya – Tectitethya – Tethya – Tethyastra – Tethycometes – Tethytimea – Xenospongia

Name

Tethyidae Gray, 1867 [1848]: 540 [conserved name]

• Type genus: Tethya Lamarck, 1814, by subsequent designation.
• Placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology with the Name Number 513 by Opinion 1182 (1981: 174).

Synonymy

• Tethyadae Gray, 1848: 1 [original spelling]

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1848. List of the Specimens of British Sponges in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 2. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. viii + 24 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the descriptions of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492–558. BHL Reference page. 
• Melville, R.V. 1981. Opinion 1182. Tethyidae in Mollusca, Porifera and Tunicata: removal of the homonymy. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 38(3): 174–177. BHL, Biostor Reference page. 

Additional references

• Sarà, M. 2002. Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245–267 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 
• Sarà, M. & Sarà, A. 2002. Three remarkable new genera of Tethyidae (Porifera Demospongiae) from Australia. Italian Journal of Zoology 69(2): 163–173. DOI: 10.1080/11250000209356455 Reference page. 
• Sorokin, S.J., Ekins, M.G., Yang, Q. & Cárdenas, P. 2019. A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny. European Journal of Taxonomy 529: 1–26. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.529 Reference page.