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Timea Gray, 1867

132079  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132079)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Porifera (Phylum)
  4. Demospongiae (Class)
  5. Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
  6. Tethyida (Order)
  7. Timeidae (Family)
  8. Timea (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Kotimea de Laubenfels, 1936 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Timeopsis Lévi, 1958 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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  1. Species Timea acutostellata (Hanitsch, 1894)
  2. Species Timea alba Bergquist, 1968
  3. Species Timea alcoladoi Cruz-Barraza, Vega, Rützler & Salas-Castañeda, 2020
  4. Species Timea anthastra Lévi, 1961
  5. Species Timea aspera (Topsent, 1904)
  6. Species Timea aurantiaca Bergquist, 1968
  7. Species Timea berlincki Leite, Fonseca, Leal & Hajdu, 2015
  8. Species Timea bifidostellata Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
  9. Species Timea bioxyasterina Mothes, Santos & Campos, 2004
  10. Species Timea capitatostellifera (Carter, 1880)
  11. Species Timea centrifera (Hentschel, 1909)
  12. Species Timea chiasterina Carballo & Cruz-Barraza, 2006
  13. Species Timea chondrilloides (Topsent, 1904)
  14. Species Timea clandestina Leite, Fonseca, Leal & Hajdu, 2015
  15. Species Timea clippertoni van Soest, Kaiser & Van Syoc, 2011
  16. Species Timea crassa (Topsent, 1900)
  17. Species Timea cumana Pulitzer-Finali, 1978
  18. Species Timea curacaoensis van Soest, 2009
  19. Species Timea diplasterina Rützler, Piantoni, van Soest & Díaz, 2014
  20. Species Timea fasciata Topsent, 1934
  21. Species Timea floridusa Carballo & Cruz-Barraza, 2006
  22. Species Timea geministellata Pulitzer-Finali, 1978
  23. Species Timea granulata Bergquist, 1965
  24. Species Timea hallezi (Topsent, 1894)
  25. Species Timea hechteli Lehnert & Heimler, 2001
  26. Species Timea innocens (Schmidt, 1870)
  27. Species Timea intermedia (Lévi, 1958)
  28. Species Timea irregularis Sarà & Siribelli, 1960
  29. Species Timea juantotoi Carballo & Cruz-Barraza, 2006
  30. Species Timea kamasary Mácola & Menegola, 2018
  31. Species Timea levii Van Soest, 2024
  32. Species Timea lophastraea (Hentschel, 1909)
  33. Species Timea lowchoyi Hooper, 1986
  34. Species Timea micraster Lehnert & Heimler, 2001
  35. Species Timea mixta (Topsent, 1896)
  36. Species Timea moorei (Carter, 1880)
  37. Species Timea ohuirae Carballo & Cruz-Barraza, 2006
  38. Species Timea ornata Lévi & Lévi, 1989
  39. Species Timea oxyasterina Rützler, Piantoni, van Soest & Díaz, 2014
  40. Species Timea parasitica (Higgin, 1877)
  41. Species Timea perastra (de Laubenfels, 1936)
  42. Species Timea secirm Moraes, 2011
  43. Species Timea simplistellata Pulitzer-Finali, 1983
  44. Species Timea spherastraea Burton, 1959
  45. Species Timea spinatostellifera (Carter, 1880)
  46. Species Timea stellata (Bowerbank, 1866)
  47. Species Timea stellifasciata Sarà & Siribelli, 1960
  48. Species Timea stellifera (Carter, 1887)
  49. Species Timea stelligera (Carter, 1882)
  50. Species Timea stellivarians (Carter, 1880)
  51. Species Timea stenosclera Hechtel, 1969
  52. Species Timea tethya (de Laubenfels, 1954)
  53. Species Timea tethyoides Burton, 1959
  54. Species Timea tetractis Hentschel, 1912
  55. Species Timea trigonostellata (Carter, 1880)
  56. Species Timea tylasterina Van Soest, 2017
  57. Species Timea unistellata (Topsent, 1892)
  58. Species Timea xena de Laubenfels, 1954
  59. Species Timea agnani Boury-Esnault, 1973 accepted as Cyamon agnani (Boury-Esnault, 1973) (genus transfer)
  60. Species Timea authia de Laubenfels, 1930 accepted as Tethytimea authia (de Laubenfels, 1930)
  61. Species Timea bistellata (Schmidt, 1862) accepted as Diplastrella bistellata (Schmidt, 1862)
  62. Species Timea crassa sensu Lévi, 1952 accepted as Timea levii Van Soest, 2024 (preoccupied)
  63. Species Timea curvistellifera (Dendy, 1905) accepted as Spirastrella curvistellifera (Dendy, 1905) (genus transfer)
  64. Species Timea stylifera Arndt, 1927 accepted as Adreus stylifer (Arndt, 1927) (genus transfer)
  65. Species Timea tristellata (Topsent, 1892) accepted as Spirastrella tristellata (Topsent, 1892) (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII.
page(s): 544 [details] OpenAccess publication
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Timea Gray, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132079 on 2025-04-22
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2006-08-27 12:40:02Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2018-10-11 12:50:38Z
changed
Boury-Esnault, Nicole
2020-12-16 10:32:25Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII.
page(s): 544 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Kotimea de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1936). A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication. 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
page(s): 147 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Timeopsis Lévi, 1958) Lévi, C. (1958). Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso'.Campagne 1951-1952 en Mer Rouge (suite). 11. Spongiaires de Mer Rouge recueillis par la ‘Calypso' (1951-1952). Annales de l'Institut océanographique. 34(3): 3-46.
page(s): 22 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Rützler, K. (2002). Family Timeidae Topsent, 1928. Pp. 266-267. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Timeidae Topsent, 1928. Pp. 266-267. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

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: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Thomas, P.A. (1981). A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren. Sciences zoologiques. 233: 1-63. [details] OpenAccess publication

 
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