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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Sarà, M. (1990). Australian <i>Tethya</i> (Porifera, Demospongiae) from the Great Barrier Reef with description of two new species. <em>Bolletino di Zoologia.</em> 57: 153-157. page(s): 153-155 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Sarà, M. (1992). New-Guinean <i>Tethya</i> (Porifera Demospongiae) from Laing Island with description of three new species. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 33: 447-467. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 456-458 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Sarà, M.; Corriero, G.; Bavestrello, G. (1993). <i>Tethya</i> (Porifera, Demospongiae) species coexisting in a Maldivian coral reef lagoon: taxonomical, genetic and ecological data. <em>P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology.</em> 14(4): 341-355. page(s): 344-346 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Butler, P.J. (2020). Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4745(1): 1-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1 page(s): 40 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Holotype MSNG Au 23 T [details]
Homonymy This species name is a junior primary homonym of Tethya multistella var. microstella Von Lendenfeld, 1888. However, that variety must be renamed as the typical (=name-bearing) variety multistella Von Lendenfeld, 1888 (ICZN Art. 46 & 47), thus removing the homonymy with T. microstella Sarà, 1990 (see Van Soest et al. 2020: 40 for further explanation. [details]
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