Lepidothenea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Astrophorina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Tetractinellida Subordo: Astrophorina

Familia: Neopeltidae
Genus: Lepidothenea
Species: L. incrustans

Name

Lepidothenea de Laubenfels, 1936: 176 [replacement name]

• Type genus: Lepidospongia incrustans Dendy, 1924, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Lepidospongia Dendy, 1924: 316 [preoccupied by Lepidospongia Roemer, 1864]
  • Type genus: Lepidospongia incrustans Dendy, 1924, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Dendy A. 1924. Porifera. Part I. Non-Antarctic Sponges. Natural History Report. British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Zoology 6(3): 269–392, pls I–XV. BHL Reference page. 
• Laubenfels, M.W. de. 1936. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. Reference page. 

Links

• Lepidothenea in the World Register of Marine Species