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Tethya citrina Sarà & Melone, 1965

134312  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134312)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Sarà, M.; Melone, N. (1965). Una nuova specie del genere Tethya, Tethya citrina sp. n. dal Mediterraneo (Porifera Demospongiae). Atti della Società Peloritana di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. 11 (Supplement): 123-138, pls I-II.
page(s): 125 [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  nr. S.d.M.1, geounit Adriatic Sea  
Holotype nr. S.d.M.1, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
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. Tethya citrina Sarà & Melone, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134312 on 2025-05-27
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2006-09-22 11:00:10Z
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Nomenclature

original description Sarà, M.; Melone, N. (1965). Una nuova specie del genere Tethya, Tethya citrina sp. n. dal Mediterraneo (Porifera Demospongiae). Atti della Società Peloritana di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. 11 (Supplement): 123-138, pls I-II.
page(s): 125 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Sarà, M. (2002). Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-267. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Systema Porifera – A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Sarà, M. (2002 [2004]). Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-265. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Systema Porifera – A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.(2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Pansini, M.; Musso, B. (1991). Sponges from trawl-exploitable bottoms of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas: distribution and ecology. P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology. 12 (4): 317-329.
page(s): 321 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp. , available online at http://hal-02490465
page(s): 25 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Corriero, G. (1989). The sponge fauna from the Stagnone di Marsala (Sicily): taxonomic and ecological observations. Bolletino Museo Istituto Biologia Università Genova. 53: 101-113.
page(s): 103 [details] 

additional source Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô. 30, 55-78.
page(s): 65 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Heim, I.; Nickel, M.; Picton, B.; Brümmer, F. (2007). Description and molecular phylogeny of Tethya hibernica sp. nov. (Porifera, Demospongiae) from Northern Ireland with remarks on the European species of the genus Tethya. Zootaxa. 1595: 1-15. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Gracia, F., B. Clamor, D. Jaume, J.J. Fornos, M.J. Uriz, D. Martin, J. Gil, P. Gracia, M. Febrer & G. Pons. (2005). La Cova des Coll (Felanitx, Mallorca): espeleogenesi, geomorfologia, hidrologia, sedimentologia, fauna i conservacio. La Cova des Coll (Felanitx, Mallorca): speleology, geomorphology, hydrology, sedimentology, fauna and conservation. Endins. 27: 141-186. (Catalan).
page(s): 167-168 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Pansini, M. (1987). Report on a collection of Demospongiae from soft bottoms of the Eastern Adriatic Sea. In: Jones WC (ed) European contributions to the taxonomy of sponges. Publications of the Sherkin Island Marine Station. 1, 41-53.
page(s): 43 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Voultsiadou, E. (2005). Sponge diversity in the Aegean Sea: Check list and new information. Italian Zoology. 72 (1): 53-64.
page(s): 55 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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 Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society. 1-175.
page(s): 57-58 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1978). Report on a Collection of Sponges from the Bay of Naples. III Hadromerida, Axinellida, Poecilosclerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell'Universitá di Genova. 45: 7-89.
page(s): 21-22 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. 84: 445-621.
page(s): 504-506; fig 31 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Kefalas, E.; Castritsi-Catharios, I; Miliou, H. (2003). The impacts of scallop dredging on sponge assemblages in the Gulf of Kalloni (Aegean Sea, northeastern Mediterranean). ICES Journal of Marine Science. 60, 402-10.
page(s): 406 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Scalera-Liaci, L.; Sciscioli, M.; Fiordiponti, F. (1976). Distribuzione dei Poriferi del mar Piccolo di Taronto. Oebalia. 2, 3-19.
page(s): 18 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Longo, C.; Cardone, F.; Pierri, C.; Mercurio, M.; Mucciolo, S.; Marzano, C.N.; Corriero, G. (2018). Sponges associated with coralligenous formations along the Apulian coasts. Marine Biodiversity. 48(4): 2151-2163., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0744-x
page(s): 2159 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Đorđević, N.; Petović, S. (2020). Diversity and distribution of class Demospongiae (phylum Porifera) in the Boka Kotorska bay. Studia Marina. 33 (2): 5-14., available online at http://www.studiamarina.ac.me/pdf/33/No2/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20Demospongiae%20in%20BKB.pdf
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

biology source Morrow, C.; Picton, B.; Erpenbeck, D.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Maggs, C.; Allcock, A. (2012). Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62(1): 174-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.016
page(s): 177 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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Holotype nr. S.d.M.1, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
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LanguageName 
Dutch citroen spons  [details]
English yellow golfball spongeyellow golf ball spongesea lemon  [details]
French citron de mer  [details]
German ZitronenschwammZitrone Schwam  [details]
Italian spugna limone  [details]
Spanish Esponja limón  [details]
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