Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Myxillina > Family Crellidae > Genus Crella > Subgenus Crella (Pytheas)

Crella (Pytheas) atra (Topsent, 1890)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Crella*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pytheas atra*	Topsent, 1890	basionym
*Crella atra*	(Topsent, 1890)	synonym; alternate representation
*Pytheas atra*	Topsent, 1890	synonym

Literature

original description	Topsent, E. 1892a. Contribution à l’étude des Spongiaires de l’Atlantique Nord (Golfe de Gascogne, Terre-Neuve, Açores). Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 2: 1-165, pls I-XI.
original description	Topsent, E. 1890b. Notice préliminaire sur les spongiaires recueillis durant les campagnes de l'Hirondelle. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France (15): 26-32, 65-71.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Crellidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 556-566. 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).

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Crella (Pytheas) atra (Topsent, 1890). 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:169066