WoRMS taxon details
'Lithistida'
AphiaID: 131605
AphiaID: 131605
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) |
| Authority | Schmidt, 1870 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Order | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Demospongiae | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. 'Lithistid' Demospongiae. Pp. 299-301. 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). [details] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa | Family Azoricidae Sollas, 1888 Family Corallistidae Sollas, 1888 Family Desmanthidae Topsent, 1894 Family Isoraphiniidae Schrammen, 1924 Family Lithistida incertae sedis Family Macandrewiidae Schrammen, 1924 Family Neopeltidae Sollas, 1888 Family Phymaraphiniidae Schrammen, 1924 Family Phymatellidae Schrammen, 1910 Family Pleromidae Sollas, 1888 Family Scleritodermidae Sollas, 1888 Family Siphonidiidae Lendenfeld, 1903 Family Theonellidae Lendenfeld, 1903 Family Vetulinidae Lendenfeld, 1903 Family Daedalopeltidae De Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Neopeltidae Sollas, 1888 Family Leiodermatiidae Lendenfeld, 1903 accepted as Azoricidae Sollas, 1888 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
'Lithistida' are sponges sharing a skeleton built from desma spicules. The living representatives are but a small sample of a much larger fossil presence. The Recent lithistids are generally considered a polyphyletic assemblage, with various famlies and genera related to sponges lacking desmas based on shared microscleres. Examples are Scleritodermidae with sigmaspires identical to those in Spirophorida, and Corallistidae with amphiasters shared with Pachastrellidae. Unfortunately, most fossils and several Recent families do not demonstrate such clear characters shared with non-Lithistids, so their affinities remain obscure. For this reason, 'Lithistida' are here treated as an ordinal group of the Demospongiae. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131605 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). 'Lithistida'. 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. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131605 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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