WoRMS taxon details
Theonella Gray, 1868
AphiaID: 171248
AphiaID: 171248
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Theonellidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Theonella swinhoei Gray, 1868 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Theonellidae Lendenfeld, 1903 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Rhachella Sollas, 1888 (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray, J.E. 1868b. Note on Theonella, a New Genus of Coralloid Sponges from Formosa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868 (3): 565-566. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. Family Theonellidae Lendenfeld, 1903. Pp. 327-337. 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: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] original description (from synonym): Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, 1873-1876. Zoology 25(63): 1-458, pls I-XLIV, 1 map. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Theonella annulata Lendenfeld, 1907 Species Theonella atlantica van Soest & Stentoft, 1988 Species Theonella complicata (Carter, 1880) Species Theonella conica (Kieschnick, 1896) Species Theonella cupola Burton, 1928 Species Theonella cylindrica Wilson, 1925 Species Theonella ferruginea Haeckel in Zittel, 1878 Species Theonella incerta Thiele, 1900 Species Theonella invaginata Wilson, 1925 Species Theonella lacerata Lendenfeld, 1907 Species Theonella levior Lendenfeld, 1907 Species Theonella mirabilis (de Laubenfels, 1954) Species Theonella pulchrifolia Dendy, 1922 Species Theonella swinhoei Gray, 1868 Species Theonella calyx (Döderlein, 1884) accepted as Discodermia calyx Döderlein, 1884 Species Theonella discifera Lendenfeld, 1907 accepted as Discodermia discifera (Lendenfeld, 1907) Species Theonella pratti (Bowerbank, 1869) accepted as Theonella swinhoei Gray, 1868 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171248 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Theonella Gray, 1868. 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=171248 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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