Tethytimea de Laubenfels, 1936

Turner, Thomas L., 2020, The order Tethyida (Porifera) in California: taxonomy, systematics, and the first member of the family Hemiasterellidae in the Eastern Pacific, Zootaxa 4861 (2), pp. 211-231 : 222

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.2.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4414682
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scientific name	Tethytimea de Laubenfels, 1936
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Genus Tethytimea de Laubenfels, 1936

Diagnosis. Tethyidae with thinly encrusting body. Megasclere skeleton composed of parallel bundles of tylostyles, with or without styles, ending in tubercles. Megasters are oxyspherasters and tylasters, heterogeneous in size and sometimes with giant spicules. Micrasters are tylasters. Other microscleres, occasionally present, are spheres. (Modified from Cruz-Barraza et al. (2017) to include styles and tylasters among megasters.)