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Dictyoceratida Minchin, 1900

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dysideidae Gray, 1867
Irciniidae Gray, 1867
Spongiidae Gray, 1867
Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978

Literature

original description	Minchin, E.A. 1900. Chapter III. Sponges. Pp. 1-178. In: Lankester, E.R.(Ed.), A Treatise on Zoology. Part II. The Porifera and Coelenterata. 2.(Adam & Charles Black: London).
basis of record	Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Order Dictyoceratida Minchin, 1900. Pp. 1021. 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).
additional source	Topsent, E. 1914b. La provenance des particules incluses dans les fibres des Ceratina. Association Française de l'Avancement des Sciences. Congrès du Havre: 540-541.
taxonomy source	Wörheide, G. 2008. A hypercalcified sponge with soft relatives: Vaceletia is a keratose demosponge. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(1): 433-438.

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Dictyoceratida. 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:131595