Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Keratosa > Order Dictyoceratida > Family Dysideidae > Genus Dysidea

Dysidea tupha (Pallas, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Spongia Linnaeus, 1759

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dysidea*	Johnston, 1842	accepted genus name
*Duseideia*	Johnston, 1842	synonym
*Spongelia*	Nardo, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Dysidea elegans*	(Nardo, 1847)	synonym

Children

Dysidea elegans f. pontica (Czerniavsky, 1880)

Literature

additional source	Carballo, J.L.; Garcia-Gómez, J.C. (1994). Esponjas del Estrecho de Gibraltar y áreas próximas, con nuevas aportaciones para la fauna Iberica [Porifera from the Straits of Gibraltar and nearby areas, new species of the Iberian fauna]. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 35(2): 193-211.
additional source	Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô. 30, 55-78.
additional source	Pulitzer-Finali, G.; Pronzato, R. (1981 [1980]). The Keratosa in a collection of Mediterranean sponges mainly from the Italian coasts. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. 83: 127-158.
additional source	Benito, J. (1981). Algunas esponjas del litoral levantino español. Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografia. 6, 89-102.
additional source	Vacelet, J. (1959). Répartition générale des éponges et systématique des éponges cornées de la région de Marseille et de quelques stations méditerranéennes. Recueil des Travaux de la Station marine d'Endoume. 16 (26): 39-101, pls 1-3.
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N. (1971). Spongiaires de la zone rocheuse de Banyuls-sur-Mer. II. Systématique. Vie et Milieu. 22(2): 287-349.
additional source	Balduzzi, A.; Bianchi, C.N.; Boero, F.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Pansini, M.; Sarà, M. (1989). The suspension-feeder community of a Mediterranean sea cave. In: J.D. Ros (Ed.). Topics in Marine Biology. Scientia Marina. 53 (2): 387-395.
additional source	Voultsiadou-Koukoura, E.; Koukouras, A. (1993). Contribution to the knowledge of Keratose sponges (Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, Verongida: Demospongiae, Porifera) of the Aegean Sea. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin. 69, 57-72.
additional source	Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology. 12 (4): 317-329.

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. Dysidea tupha (Pallas, 1766). 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:184496