Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Dictyoceratida > Family Thorectidae > Subfamily Thorectinae > Genus Hyrtios

Hyrtios elegans (Lendenfeld, 1888)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hyrtios*	Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864	accepted genus name
*Heteronema*	Keller, 1889	synonym
*Oligoceras*	Schulze, 1880	synonym

Species group names

*Dysidea elegans*	(Lendenfeld, 1889)	basionym
*Dysidea elegans*	(Lendenfeld, 1889)	synonym

Literature

original description	Lendenfeld, R. Von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sidney. (Taylor & Francis: London): i-xiv, 1-260, pls 1-12.
basis of record	Bergquist, P.R. 1995. Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida and Verongida from the New Caledonia Lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38 (1): 1-51.

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Hyrtios elegans (Lendenfeld, 1888). 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:557283