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Porifera name details
original description
Gray, J.E. (1870). Notes on Anchoring Sponges (in a letter to Mr. Moore). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4) 6(34): 309-312. [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy This genus was erected by Gray (1870) for Tethea (sic) polyura (Schmidt, 1870 as Craniella) which according to Gray was misplaced and belonged not to Tethea but to a new genus. At the same time he replaced the species name polyura with the name schmidtii for no apparent reason. [details]
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