Tethyidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tethyida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia 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
[Source: World Porifera database (WoRMS, 2017)]

Tethyidae Gray, 1848: 540 [conserved name ]
- Type genus: Tethya Lamarck, 1814.
- Placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology with the Name Number 513 (Opinion 1182).

Gray, J.E. 1848. List of the Specimens of British Sponges in the collectionof the British Museum (London). (British Museum Publication): viii, 1-24.

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.

Cruz-Barraza, J.A., Vega, C.S., Ávila, E. & Vázquez-Maldonado, L.E. 2017. Integrative taxonomy reveals the first record and a new species for the previously monotypic genus Tethytimea (Tethyida: Tethyidae) in the Gulf of Mexico. Zootaxa 4226(1): 113–125. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.1.6 . Reference page.

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