Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida > Subclass Hexasterophora > Order Sceptrulophora

Farreidae Gray, 1872

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Farrea Bowerbank, 1862

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: キヌアミカイメン科

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1872). Notes on the Classification of the Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 9(54): 442-461.
basis of record	Reiswig, H.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Farreidae Gray, 1872. pp. 1332-1340. 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, NY. 1708 + XLVIII. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Reiswig, H.M. (2002). Family Farreidae Gray, 1872. pp. 1332-1340. In Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Vol. 2 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
additional source	Reiswig, H.M.; Kelly, M. (2011). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Hexasterophoran Glass Sponges of New Zealand (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Hexasterophora): Orders Hexactinosida, Aulocalycoida and Lychniscosida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 124: 1-176.
additional source	Dohrmann, M.; Göcke, C.G.; Janussen, D.; Reitner, J.; Lüter, C.; Wörheide, G. 2011. Systematics and spicule evolution in dictyonal sponges (Hexactinellida: Sceptrulophora) with description of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1003-1025.

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. Farreidae Gray, 1872. 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:131689