Tethytimea

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Tethyidae
Genus: Tethytimea
Species (3): T. authia – T. carmelita – T. tylota

Name

Tethytimea de Laubenfels, 1936: 164

• Type species: Donatia tylota Hentschel, 1912, by original designation and monotypy.

References

Primary references

• 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

• Cruz-Barraza, J.A., Vega, C.S., Ávila, E. & Vázquez-Maldonado, L.E. 2017. Integrative taxonomy reveals the first record and a new species for the previously monotypic genus Tethytimea (Tethyida: Tethyidae) in the Gulf of Mexico. Zootaxa 4226(1): 113–125. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4226.1.6 Reference page. 
• Turner, T.L. 2020. The order Tethyida (Porifera) in California: taxonomy, systematics, and the first member of the family Hemiasterellidae in the Eastern Pacific. Zootaxa 4861(2): 211–231. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.2.3 Reference page.