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

Hymedesmia (Stylopus) hibernica Stephens, 1916

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hymedesmia*	Bowerbank, 1864	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Hymedesmia hibernica*	Stephens, 1916	synonym; alternate representation

Literature

original description	Stephens, J. 1916. Preliminary Notice of some Irish Sponges. -The Monaxonellida (Suborder Sigmatomonaxonellida) obtained by the Fisheries Branch of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Ireland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 17(99):232-242.
original description	Stephens, J. 1921 [1920]. Sponges of the Coasts of Ireland. II. The Tetraxonida (concluded). Scientific Investigations of the Fisheries Branch. Department of Agriculture for Ireland 1920(2): 1-75, pls I-VI.
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.