Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea

Lithonida Vacelet, 1981

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Minchinellidae Dendy & Row, 1913
Petrobionidae Borojevic, 1979

Literature

original description

Vacelet, J. 1981. Éponges hypercalcifées (‘Pharétronides’‘Sclérosponges’) des cavités des récifs coralliens de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (4, A) 3(2):313-351.

basis of record

Vacelet, J.; Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M. (2002). Order Lithonida Vacelet, 1981, recent, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 1185-1192

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

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Lithonida. 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:131592

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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

2004-12-21 by Rob van Soest

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