Tectitethya, the Glossary
Tectitethya is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Tethyidae.[1]
Table of Contents
6 relations: Family (biology), Genus, Species, Sponge, Tectitethya crypta, Tethyidae.
- Hadromerida
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
See Tectitethya and Family (biology)
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Sponge
Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.
Tectitethya crypta
Tectitethya crypta is a species of demosponge belonging to the family Tethyidae. Tectitethya and Tectitethya crypta are Hadromerida.
See Tectitethya and Tectitethya crypta
Tethyidae
Tethyidae is a family of sea sponges belonging to the order Tethyida. Tectitethya and Tethyidae are Demospongiae stubs and Hadromerida.
See also
Hadromerida
- Cliona
- Cliona celata
- Cliona delitrix
- Cliona orientalis
- Cliona patera
- Cliona viridis
- Clionaidae
- Orange wall sponge
- Pione vastifica
- Placospongia
- Polymastia crocea
- Polymastiidae
- Spheciospongia vesparium
- Suberitidae
- Tectitethya
- Tectitethya crypta
- Tethya
- Tethya actinia
- Tethya aurantium
- Tethya bergquistae
- Tethya leysae
- Tethyidae
- Trachycladus
- Willardia caicosensis