Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Myxillina > Family Hymedesmiidae > Genus Hymedesmia > Subgenus Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia)

Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) proxima Lundbeck, 1910

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hymedesmia*	Bowerbank, 1864	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Lundbeck, W. 1910. Porifera. (Part III.) Desmacidonidae (pars.).Pp. 1-124, pls I-XI, 1 table. In: The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 6(3).(Bianco Luno: Copenhagen.
additional source	Goodwin, C.E.; Picton, B.E.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2011. Hymedesmia (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from Irish and Scottish cold-water coral reefs, with a description of five new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91(5): 979–997.
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