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

Timea Gray, 1867

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Timea acutostellata (Hanitsch, 1894)
Timea aspera (Topsent, 1904)
Timea bifidostellata Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
Timea chondrilloides (Topsent, 1904)
Timea crassa (Topsent, 1900)
Timea cumana Pulitzer-Finali, 1978
Timea fasciata Topsent, 1934
Timea geministellata Pulitzer-Finali, 1978
Timea hallezi (Topsent, 1894)
Timea irregularis Sarà & Siribelli, 1960
Timea mixta (Topsent, 1896)
Timea simplistellata Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
Timea stellata (Bowerbank, 1866)
Timea stellifasciata Sarà & Siribelli, 1960
Timea stelligera (Carter, 1882)
Timea unistellata (Topsent, 1892)

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII.
basis of record	Rützler, K. (2002). Family Timeidae Topsent, 1928. Pp. 266-267. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Timeidae Topsent, 1928. Pp. 266-267. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	Thomas, P.A. (1981). A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren. Sciences zoologiques. 233: 1-63.
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. Timea Gray, 1867. 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:132079