Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Hexactinellida > Subclass Hexasterophora > Order Hexactinosida > Suborder Sceptrulophora

Farreidae Gray, 1872

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Farrea Bowerbank, 1862

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. 1872a. Notes on the Classification of the Sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 9(54): 442-461.
additional source	Reiswig, H.M. (2002). Family Farreidae Gray, 1872, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 1332-1340
additional source	Reiswig, H.M.; Kelly, M. 2011. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Hexasterophoran Glass Sponges of New Zealand (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Hexasterophora): Orders Hexactinosida, Aulocalycoida and Lychiniscosida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 124:1-176.
additional source	Dohrmann, M.; Göcke, C.G.; Janussen, D.; Reitner, J.; Lüter, C.; Wörheide, G. 2011. Systematics and spicule evolution in dictyonal sponges (Hexactinellida: Sceptrulophora) with description of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1003-1025.

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Citation

Dohrmann, M.; van Soest, R. (2014). Farreidae Gray, 1872. 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:131689