Metania

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Metaniidae
Genus: Metania
Species (13): M. fittkaui – M. godeauxi – M. kiliani – M. madagascariensis – M. melloleitaoi – M. ovogemata – M. pottsi – M. reticulata – M. rhodesiana – M. spinata – M. subtilis – M. vesparioides – M. vesparium

Name

Metania Gray, 1867: 551

• Type species: Spongilla reticulata Bowerbank, 1863, by subsequent designation by de Laubenfels (1936: 37).

References

Primary references

• 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. 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. 

Additional references

• Manconi, R., Cadeddu, B. & Pronzato, R. 2015: Adaptive morpho-traits, taxonomy and biogeography of Metania Gray, 1867 (Porifera: Spongillina: Metaniidae) with the description of a new species from Madagascar. Zootaxa 3918(1): 39–56. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.1.2. Reference page. 

Links

• Metania in the World Register of Marine Species