Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Halichondrida > Family Dictyonellidae > Genus Tethyspira

Tethyspira spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

TethyspiraTopsent, 1890accepted genus name

Species group names

Tethea spinosa Bowerbank, 1874 basionym
Tethea spinosa Bowerbank, 1874 synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: pork scratching sponge

Literature

original description

Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII.

basis of record

Van Soest, R.W.M.; Erpenbeck, D.; Alvarez De Glasby, 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. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).

additional source

Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

additional source

Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219.

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: pp. 85-103

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Tethyspira spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874). In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132558

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2007-08-20 by Rob van Soest

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