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Tetractinellida

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Tetractinellida
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Rhabdastrella globostellata
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Subclass: Heteroscleromorpha
Order: Tetractinellida
Marshall, 1876
Suborders
  • Astrophorina
  • Spirophorina
  • Thoosina
Synonyms
List
  • Ancorinida
  • Choristida
  • Craniellida
  • Dicranocladina
  • Megamorina
  • Poecillastrida
  • Rhizomorina
  • Tetracladina

Tetractinellida is an order of sea sponges belonging to the Class Demospongiae. First described in 1876, this order received a new description in 2012 and replaced the two orders Astrophorida and Spirophorida, which then became sub-orders as Astrophorina and Spirophorina.[1]

Families

Suborder Astrophorina Sollas, 1887
  • Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870
  • Family Calthropellidae Lendenfeld, 1907
  • Family Corallistidae Sollas, 1888
  • Family Geodiidae Gray, 1867
  • Family Isoraphiniidae Schrammen, 1924
  • Family Macandrewiidae Schrammen, 1924
  • Family Neopeltidae Sollas, 1888
  • Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875
  • Family Phymaraphiniidae Schrammen, 1924
  • Family Phymatellidae Schrammen, 1910
  • Family Pleromidae Sollas, 1888
  • Family Theneidae Carter, 1883
  • Family Theonellidae Lendenfeld, 1903
  • Family Thrombidae Sollas, 1888
  • Family Vulcanellidae Cárdenas, Xavier, Reveillaud, Schander & Rapp, 2011
Suborder Spirophorina Bergquist & Hogg, 1969
  • Family Azoricidae Sollas, 1888
  • Family Samidae Sollas, 1888
  • Family Scleritodermidae Sollas, 1888
  • Family Siphonidiidae Lendenfeld, 1903
  • Family Spirasigmidae Hallmann, 1912
  • Family Stupendidae Kelly & Cárdenas, 2016
  • Family Tetillidae Sollas, 1886
Suborder Thoosina Carballo, Bautista-Guerrero, Cárdenas, Cruz-Barraza, Aguilar-Camacho, 2018
  • Family Thoosidae Cockerell, 1925

References

  1. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tetractinellida". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-16.


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