Halicometes Topsent, 1898 
AphiaID: 132076

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Tethyidae (Family)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Typetaxon		Cometella stellata Schmidt, 1870 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent		Tethyidae Gray, 1848
Synonymised taxa		Tethycordyla de Laubenfels, 1934 (junior synonym)
Sources		original description: Topsent, E. 1898b. Eponges nouvelles des Açores. (Première serie) Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France (11): 225-255. [details] [full text] basis of record: 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] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1934. New sponges from the Puerto Rican deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 91(17): 1-28. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Sarà, M. 2002. Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-267. 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] [view taxon] [full text]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Halicometes cometes (Schmidt, 1879) Species Halicometes elongata Boury-Esnault, Pansini & Uriz, 1994 Species Halicometes hooperi Lévi, 1993 Species Halicometes koreana (Rho & Sim, 1979) Species Halicometes minuta Sarà & Rosa-Barbosa, 1995 Species Halicometes pediculata (Lévi, 1964) Species Halicometes stellata (Schmidt, 1870) Species Halicometes stonei Sarà & Bavestrello, 1996 Species Halicometes thyris (de Laubenfels, 1934) Species Halicometes perastra de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Timea perastra (de Laubenfels, 1936)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Link		To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132076
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van Soest, Rob 2005-12-12 19:27:27Z   changed   van Soest, Rob 2010-05-24 18:09:26Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Halicometes Topsent, 1898. 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: 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 at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=132076 on 2013-05-25