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

Tethyspira Topsent, 1890

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tethyspira spinosa*	(Bowerbank, 1874)	taxonomically included in

Children

Tethyspira spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874)

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. (1890). Éponges de la Manche. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 3 (1): 195-205.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Erpenbeck, D.; Alvarez, B. (2002[2004]). Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Díaz & Pomponi, 1990. Pp. 773-786. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, NY. 1708 + xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; Erpenbeck, D.; Alvarez, B. (2002). Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Díaz & Pomponi, 1990. Pp. 773-786. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, NY. 1708 + xlviii. 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. Tethyspira Topsent, 1890. 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:131798