Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Myxillina > Family Tedaniidae > Genus Tedania

Tedania (Trachytedania) Ridley, 1881

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tedania*	Gray, 1867	accepted genus name

Subgenus group names

*Trachytedania*	Ridley, 1881	basionym
*Trachytedania*	Ridley, 1881	synonym

Children

Tedania (Trachytedania) echinata (Hope, 1889)

Literature

original description	Ridley, S.O. 1881a. XI. Spongida. Horny and Siliceous Sponges of Magellan Straits, S.W. Chili, and Atlantic off S.W. Brazil. Pp. 107-137,140-141, pls X-XI. In: Gunther, A. (Ed.), Account of the Zoological Collections made during the Survey of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ in the Straits of Magellan and on the Coast of Patagonia.
basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Tedaniidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886. Pp. 625-632. 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).