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Polymastiidae Gray, 1867 
AphiaID: 131673

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Hadromerida
Sources  original description: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Boury-Esnault, N. 2002. Family Polymastiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 201-219. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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 (look up in IMIS[details]

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 Genus Acanthopolymastia Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1997
Genus Astrotylus Plotkin & Janussen, 2007
Genus Atergia Stephens, 1915
Genus Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864
Genus Proteleia Dendy & Ridley, 1886
Genus Pseudotrachya Hallmann, 1914
Genus Quasillina Norman, 1869
Genus Radiella Schmidt, 1870
Genus Ridleia Dendy, 1888
Genus Sphaerotylus Topsent, 1898
Genus Spinularia Gray, 1867
Genus Tentorium Vosmaer, 1887
Genus Trachyteleia Topsent, 1928
Genus Tylexocladus Topsent, 1898
Genus Weberella Vosmaer, 1885

Genus Anomolissa de Laubenfels, 1934 accepted as Pseudotrachya Hallmann, 1914
Genus Bursalina Schmidt, 1875 accepted as Quasillina Norman, 1869
Genus Rhaphidorus Topsent, 1898 accepted as Spinularia Gray, 1867
Genus Rinalda Schmidt, 1870 accepted as Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864
Genus Sideroderma Lendenfeld, 1883 accepted as Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864
Genus Suberitechinus de Laubenfels, 1949 accepted as Trachyteleia Topsent, 1928
Genus Thecophora Schmidt, 1870 accepted as Tentorium Vosmaer, 1887
Genus Trichostemma Sars, 1869 accepted as Radiella Schmidt, 1870
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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Note  Dr Alexander Plotkin assisted in compiling the list of genera and species (September 2007). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131673
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastiidae Gray, 1867. 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. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131673 on 2013-06-20
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