Heteromeyenia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Spongillida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Spongillida

Familia: Spongillidae
Genus: Heteromeyenia
Species (11): H. baileyi – H. barlettai – H. cristalina – H. horsti – H. insignis – H. latitenta – H. longistylis – H. riojai – H. stepanowii – H. tentasperma – H. tubisperma

Name

Heteromeyenia Potts, 1881: 150

• Type species: Spongilla repens Potts, 1881, by subsequent designation by de Laubenfels (1936: 36).

Synonyms

• Carterella Potts, 1881: 150 [preoccupied by Carterella Zittel, 1878]
  • Type species: Spongilla tentasperma Potts, 1880, by monotypy.
• Carterius Petr, 1886: 92
  • Type species: Dosilia stepanowii Dybowski, 1884, by monotypy.
• Heteromeyenia (Oxheteromeyenia) Schröder, 1927: 107 [as a subgenus]

References

Primary references

• Potts, E. 1881. Some new genera of freshwater sponges. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1881: 149–150. BHL Reference page. 
• Petr, F. 1886. Dodatky ku fauně českých hub sladkovodních. Sitzungsberichte der Königl. Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 1886: 92–119. BHL Reference page. 
• 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. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Penney, J.T.† & Racek, A.A. 1968. Comprehensive revision of a worldwide collection of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillidae). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 272: 1–184. BHL Reference page. 
• Pinheiro, U., Calheira, L. & Hajdu, E. 2015. A new species of freshwater sponge, Heteromeyenia barlettai sp. nov. from an aquarium in São Paulo, Brazil (Spongillida: Spongillidae). Zootaxa 4034(2): 351–363. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Carballo, J.L., Gómez, P., Cruz-Barraza, J.A. & Yáñez, B. 2021. Taxonomy and molecular systematic position of the freshwater genus Heteromeyenia (Porifera: Spongillida) with the description of a new species from Mexico. Systematics and Biodiversity 19(8): 940–956. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1953184 Reference page. 

Links

• Heteromeyenia in the World Register of Marine Species