Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Tethyida > Family Tethyidae

Tethya Lamarck, 1815

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tethea*	Johnston, 1842	orthographic variant

Children

Tethya aurantium (Pallas, 1766)
Tethya citrina Sarà & Melone, 1965
Tethya gracilis Sarà, Sarà, Nickel & Brümmer, 2001
Tethya hibernica Heim, Nickel, Picton & Brümmer, 2007
Tethya irregularis Sarà & Bavestrello, 1998
Tethya minuta Sarà, Sarà, Nickel & Brümmer, 2001
Tethya norvegica (Bowerbank, 1872)
Tethya wilhelma Sarà, Sarà, Nickel & Brümmer, 2001

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: タマカイメン属

Literature

original description	Lamarck, J.-B. de. (1815 [1814]). Suite des polypiers empâtés. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. 1: 69-80, 162-168, 331-340.
basis of record	Sarà, M. (2002 [2004]). Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-265. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Systema Porifera – A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.(2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
basis of record	Sarà, M. (2002). Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-267. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Systema Porifera – A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
additional source	Burton, M. (1956). The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen). 4: 111-147.
additional source	Sarà, M; Gaino, E. (1987). Interspecific variation in arrangement and morphology of micrasters of Tethya species (Porifera, Demospongiae). Zoomorphology. 107: 313-317.
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: 85-103.
additional source	Sarà, M. (1997). Species diversity and ecology of the genus Tethya (Porifera Demospongiae) in coral reefs. Proceedings 8th International Coral Reef Symposium. 2: 1383-1386.
additional source	Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda.

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Tethya Lamarck, 1815. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132077