Pachymatisma

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Astrophorina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Tetractinellida Subordo: Astrophorina

Familia: Geodiidae
Genus: Pachymatisma
Species (6): P. areolata – P. bifida – P. johnstonia – P. monaena – P. nodosa – P. normani

Name

Pachymatisma Bowerbank in Johnston, 1842: 244

• Type species: Halichondria johnstonia Bowerbank, 1842, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Johnston, G. 1842. A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh. i–xii + 264 pp., pls. I–XXV. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Cárdenas, P., Xavier, J., Tendal, O., Schander, C. & Rapp, H.T. 2007. Redescription and resurrection of Pachymatisma normani (Demospongiae, Geodiidae), with remarks on the genus Pachymatisma. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87(6): 1511–1525. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407058286 Reference page. 
• Cárdenas, P., Rapp, H.T., Schander, C. & Tendal, O.S. 2010. Molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the Geodiidae (Porifera,Demospongiae, Astrophorida) - combining phylogenetic and Linnaean classification. Zoologica Scripta 39(1): 89–106. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00402.x Reference page. 

Links

• Pachymatisma in the World Register of Marine Species