Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Tetractinellida > Suborder Astrophorina > Family Theneidae > Genus Thenea

Thenea abyssorum Koltun, 1964

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thenea*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: abyssal horny sponge sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: éponge des abysses

Literature

original description	Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges (Porifera) collected in the Greenland seas and from the region to the north of the Spitzbergen and Franz Josef Land, from expeditions of the 'F. Litke' 1955, 'Obb' 1956 and 'Lena' 1957 and 1958. Scientific results of the higher latitudes. Oceanographic Expeditions to the northern part of the Greenland Sea and the adjacent arctic basin. Publications Arctic Antarctic Scientific Institute. 259: 143-166 in Russian.
basis of record	Koltun, V.M. (1966). Four-rayed sponges of Northern and Far Eastern seas of the USSR (order Tetraxonida). Opredeliti Faunei SSSR 90. (Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR: Moscow, Leningrad): 1-112.
additional source	Koltun, V.M. 1959b. Donnaia fauna abissalnuich glubin Zhentralnovo Poljarnovo basseina [Fauna from the abyssal of central polar basin]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. Seriya: Biologiya 129(3): 662-665
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	Barthel, D.; Tendal, O.S. (1993). The sponge association of the abyssal Norwegian-Greenland Sea: species composition, substrate relationships and distribution. Sarsia. 78: 83-96.
additional source	Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2012). A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species. Zootaxa. 3253: 1-52.
additional source	Steenstrup, E.; Tendal, O.S. 1982. The genus Thenea (Porifera. Demospongia, Choristida) in the Norwegian Sea and adjacent waters; an annotated key. Sarsia 67(4): 259-268.

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. Thenea abyssorum Koltun, 1964. 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:134104