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Tethyidae  Gray, 1848
Taxonomic Serial No.: 48568

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    PhylumPorifera Grant, 1836 – sponges, éponges, esponja, porifero  
       ClassDemospongiae Sollas, 1885  
          OrderHadromerida Topsent, 1894  
             FamilyTethyidae Gray, 1848  
    Direct Children:  
                GenusAnthotethya Sarà & Sarà, 2002  
                GenusBurtonitethya Sarà, 1994  
                GenusColumnitis Schmidt, 1870  
                GenusHalicometes Topsent, 1898  
                GenusLaxotethya Sarà & Sarà, 2002  
                GenusNucleotethya Sarà & Bavestrello, 1996  
                GenusOxytethya Sarà & Sarà, 2002  
                GenusStellitethya Sarà, 1994  
                GenusTectitethya Sarà, 1994  
                GenusTethya Lamarck, 1814  
                GenusTethyastra Sarà, 2002  
                GenusTethycometes Sarà, 1994  
                GenusTethytimea de Laubenfels, 1936  
                GenusXenospongia Gray, 1858  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Tethyidae   
       
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Hooper, John N. A., and Rob W. M. van Soest, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2002   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges   
  Page(s): xlviii + 1708   
  Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-306-47260-0   
  Notes: Published in two volumes: Volume 1 - Introductions and Demospongiae; Volume 2 - Calcarea, Hexactinellida, Sphinctozoa, Archaeocyatha, unrecognizable taxa, and Index of higher taxa   
  Reference for: Tethyidae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Homonymy with mollusk (TSN 78522) and tunicate names (all had been named Tethyidae) addressed in Opinion 1182 of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (1981), in vol. 38, part 3, pages 174-177 ("Tethyidae in Mollusca, Porifera and Tunicata: removal of homonymy"). The sponge family remains available and valid  
 

 

    


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