Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order 'Lithistida'

Desmanthidae Topsent, 1894

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Desmanthus Topsent, 1894
Petromica Topsent, 1898
Sulcastrella Schmidt, 1879

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. 1894d. Etude monographique des spongiaires de France. I.Tetractinellida. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale (3) 2:259-400, pls XI-XVI.
basis of record	Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. Family Desmanthidae Topsent, 1893. Pp. 356-362. 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	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

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Desmanthidae Topsent, 1894. 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:131680