Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Tethyida

Tethyidae Gray, 1848

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Halicometes*	Topsent, 1898	taxonomically included in
*Tethya*	Lamarck, 1815	taxonomically included in

Children

Halicometes Topsent, 1898
Tethya Lamarck, 1815

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ムカデメリベ科

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1848). List of the specimens of British sponges in the collection of the British Museum. London, Trustees. i-viii, 1-24.
basis of record	Morrow, C.; Cárdenas, P. (2015). Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). Frontiers in Zoology. 12: 7.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Sarà, M. (2002 [2004]). Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-265. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Systema Porifera – A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.(2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Sarà, M. (2002). Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-267. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Systema Porifera – A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103.

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131677