Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Astrophorida > Family Pachastrellidae > Genus Nethea

Nethea amygdaloides (Carter, 1876)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nethea*	Sollas, 1888	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pachastrella amygdaloides*	Carter, 1876	basionym
*Poecillastra amygdaloides*	(Carter, 1876)	basionym
*Pachastrella amygdaloides*	Carter, 1876	synonym
*Pachastrella debilis*	Topsent, 1890	synonym
*Poecillastra amygdaloides*	(Carter, 1876)	synonym

Literature

original description	Carter, H.J. 1876. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine’, chiefly in 1869 (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI.
basis of record	Maldonado,M.,2002. Family Pachastrellidae. Pp.141-162. In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York, 1708 pp.
taxonomy source	Cárdenas P, Xavier JR, Reveillaud J, Schander C, Rapp HT (2011) Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy. PLoS ONE 6(4)

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External Links

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Citation

Boury-Esnault, N.; van Soest, R. (2014). Nethea amygdaloides (Carter, 1876). 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.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:183627