Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Astrophorida > Family Theneidae > Genus Thenea

Thenea muricata (Bowerbank, 1858)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thenea*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Bowerbank, J.S. 1858. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part I. On the Spicula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 148(2): 279-332, pls XXII-XXVI.
basis of record	Maldonado,M.,2002. Family Pachastrellidae. Pp.141-162. In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York, 1708 pp.
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. 1994b. Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d’Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 160: 1-174.
additional source	Burton, M. 1930c. Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II.
additional source	Levinsen, G.M.R. 1887. Kara-Havets Svampe (Porifera). Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte 1: 339-372, pls XXIX-XXXI.
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.
additional source	Burton, M. 1931d. The Folden Fiord. Report on the sponges collected by Mr. Soot-Ryven in the Folden Fiord in the year 1923. Tromsø Museum Skrifter 1 (13): 1-8.
additional source	Mustapha, K.B., Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003. Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. Bull. Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30
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
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	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	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Thenea muricata (Bowerbank, 1858). 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:134106