A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species
Author
Cárdenas, Paco
Author
Rapp, Hans Tore
text
Zootaxa
2012
3253
1
52
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.280590
35f6ecad-68d3-44cb-9183-d1c9617c2c57
1175-5326
280590
Genus
Thenea
Gray, 1867
Diagnosis:
Theneidae
with tetraxonic megascleres and without cladotyles.
Most of the taxonomy concerning
Thenea
has already been treated elsewhere (
Steenstrup & Tendal 1982
) so our description will mainly focus on new data. Our study will notably add new records, additional illustrations (external morphology and spicules) and discuss the molecular phylogenetic data now available for those species (
Cárdenas
et al
. 2011
).