{{Short description|Genus of sponges}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Puffball Sponge, Tethya aurantia.jpg | image_caption = ''Tethya aurantium'' | taxon = Tethya | authority = Lamarck, 1815 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = {{hidden begin|title = List}} * ''Donatia'' <small>Nardo, 1833</small> * ''Tethea'' <small>Johnston, 1842</small> [lapsus] * ''Tethyum'' <small>Lieberkühn, 1859</small> * ''Amniscos'' <small>Gray, 1867</small> * ''Alemo'' <small>Wright, 1881</small> * ''Tethyorraphis'' <small>Lendenfeld, 1888</small> [lapsus] * ''Tethyorrhaphis'' <small>Lendenfeld, 1888</small> * ''Taboga'' <small>de Laubenfels, 1936</small> {{hidden end}} }}
'''''Tethya''''' is a genus of sea sponges belonging to the family Tethyidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS|id=132077|db=Porifera|title=''Tethya'' Lamarck, 1815 |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref> Members of this genus all have a spherical body form<ref name="Branch">Branch, G.M., Branch, M.L, Griffiths, C.L. and Beckley, L.E. 2010. ''Two Oceans: a guide to the marine life of southern Africa'' {{ISBN|978-1-77007-772-0}}</ref> and some are known to be able to move at speeds of between 1 and 4 mm per day.<ref name="Ruppert">Ruppert, E.E., Fox, R.S. and Barnes, R.D. 2004. ''Invertebrate Zoology'' {{ISBN|0-03-025982-7}}</ref>
==Species== The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tethya'':<ref name="WoRMS" /> * ''Tethya actinia'' <small>de Laubenfels, 1950</small> * ''Tethya acuta'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya amplexa'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya andamanensis'' <small>Dendy & Burton, 1926</small> * ''Tethya asbestella'' <small>Lamarck, 1815</small> * ''Tethya aurantium'' <small>(Pallas, 1766)</small> * ''Tethya beatrizae'' <small>Ribeiro & Muricy, 2011</small> * ''Tethya bergquistae'' <small>Hooper, 1994</small> * ''Tethya bitylastra'' <small>Mácola & Menegola, 2018</small> * ''Tethya boeroi'' <small>Sarà, 1992</small> * ''Tethya brasiliana'' <small>Ribeiro & Muricy, 2004</small> * ''Tethya bullae'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya burtoni'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya californiana'' <small>de Laubenfels, 1932</small> * ''Tethya citrina'' <small>Sarà & Melone, 1965</small> * ''Tethya coccinea'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya communis'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya comorensis'' <small>Sarà, Corriero & Bavestrello, 1993</small> * ''Tethya compacta'' <small>Bergquist, 1961</small> * ''Tethya cyanae'' <small>Ribeiro & Muricy, 2004</small> * ''Tethya deformis'' <small>Thiele, 1898</small> * ''Tethya dendyi'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya densa'' <small>Sarà, 1992</small> * ''Tethya diploderma'' <small>Schmidt, 1870</small> * ''Tethya ensis'' <small>Sarà, Gómez & Sarà, 2001</small> * ''Tethya expansa'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya fastigiata'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya fissurata'' <small>Lendenfeld, 1888</small> * ''Tethya flexuosa'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya gigantea'' <small>(Lendenfeld, 1888)</small> * ''Tethya globostellata'' <small>Lendenfeld, 1897</small> * ''Tethya globum'' <small>Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864</small> * ''Tethya gracilis'' <small>Sarà, Sarà, Nickel & Brümmer, 2001</small> * ''Tethya gunni'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya hibernica'' <small>Heim, Nickel, Picton & Brümmer, 2007</small> * ''Tethya hooperi'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya ignis'' <small>Ribeiro & Muricy, 2004</small> * ''Tethya ingalli'' <small>Bowerbank, 1858</small> * ''Tethya irisae'' <small>Sorokin, Ekins, Yang & Cárdenas, 2019</small> * ''Tethya irregularis'' <small>Sarà & Bavestrello, 1998</small> * ''Tethya japonica'' <small>Sollas, 1888</small> * ''Tethya laevis'' <small>(Lendenfeld, 1888)</small> * ''Tethya levii'' <small>Sarà, 1988</small> * ''Tethya leysae'' <small>Heim & Nickel, 2010</small><ref>{{Cite web |title=IRMNG - ''Tethya leysae'' Heim & Nickel, 2010 |url=https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11832336 |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=www.irmng.org}}</ref> * †''Tethya logani'' <small>Dawson, 1857</small><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1_rCAAAQBAJ&q=Tethya+logani&pg=PA220|title=Fossil and Recent Sponges|last1=Reitner|first1=Joachim|last2=Keupp|first2=Helmut|date=2012-12-06|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9783642756566|language=en}}</ref> * ''Tethya magna'' <small>Kirkpatrick, 1903</small> * ''Tethya maza'' <small>Selenka, 1879</small> *''Tethya melinka'' <small>Hajdu, Desqueyroux-Faúndez, Carvalho, Lôbo-Hajdu & Willenz, 2013</small> *''Tethya meloni'' <small>Corriero, Gadaleta & Bavestrello, 2015</small> * ''Tethya mexicana'' <small>Sarà, Gómez & Sarà, 2001</small> * ''Tethya microstella'' <small>Sarà, 1990</small> * ''Tethya minuta'' <small>Sarà, Sarà, Nickel & Brümmer, 2001</small> * ''Tethya monstrosa'' <small>(Burton, 1924)</small> * ''Tethya mortoni'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya multifida'' <small>(Carter, 1882)</small> * ''Tethya multistella'' <small>Lendenfeld, 1888</small> * ''Tethya nicolae'' <small>Ribeiro & Muricy, 2011</small> * ''Tethya norvegica'' <small>Bowerbank, 1872</small> * ''Tethya novaecaledoniae'' <small>Sarà, 1988</small> * ''Tethya nux'' <small>(Selenka, 1867)</small> * ''Tethya omanensis'' <small>Sarà & Bavestrello, 1995</small> * ''Tethya ornata'' <small>Sarà, Bavestrello & Calcinai, 2000</small> * ''Tethya orphei'' <small>Sarà, 1990</small> * ''Tethya ovum'' <small>Sarà, Gómez & Sarà, 2001</small> * ''Tethya papillosa'' <small>(Thiele, 1905)</small> * ''Tethya paroxeata'' <small>Sarà, Gómez & Sarà, 2001</small> * ''Tethya parvistella'' <small>(Baer, 1906)</small> * ''Tethya parvula'' <small>Ribeiro & Muricy, 2011</small> * ''Tethya pellis'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya peracuata'' <small>(Topsent, 1918)</small> * ''Tethya popae'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya pulchra'' <small>Sarà, 1992</small> * ''Tethya pulitzeri'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya robusta'' <small>(Bowerbank, 1873)</small> * ''Tethya rubra'' <small>Samaai & Gibbons, 2005</small> * ''Tethya samaaii'' <small>Ribeiro & Muricy, 2011</small> * ''Tethya sarai'' <small>Desqueyroux-Faúndez & van Soest, 1997</small> * ''Tethya seychellensis'' <small>(Wright, 1881)</small> * ''Tethya simi'' <small>Sarà, Bavestrello & Calcinai, 2000</small> * ''Tethya socius'' <small>Sarà, Gómez & Sarà, 2001</small> * ''Tethya solangeae'' <small>Ribeiro & Muricy, 2011</small> * ''Tethya sollasi'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya songakensis'' <small>Kim & Sim, 2005</small> * ''Tethya stellagrandis'' <small>(Dendy, 1916)</small> * ''Tethya stellodermis'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya stolonifera'' <small>Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1991</small> * ''Tethya strongylata'' <small>Sarà, Bavestrello & Calcinai, 2000</small> * ''Tethya taboga'' <small>(de Laubenfels, 1936)</small> * ''Tethya tasmaniae'' <small>Sarà & Sarà, 2004</small> * ''Tethya tenuisclera'' <small>Sarà & Corriero, 1994</small> * ''Tethya topsenti'' <small>Sarà, Bavestrello & Calcinai, 2000</small> * ''Tethya uljinensis'' <small>Shim & Sim, 2008</small> * ''Tethya vacua'' <small>Austin, Ott, Reiswig, Romagosa & McDaniel, 2014</small> * ''Tethya varians'' <small>Sarà & Bavestrello, 1998</small> * ''Tethya viridis'' <small>(Baer, 1906)</small> * ''Tethya wilhelma'' <small>Sarà, Sarà, Nickel & Brümmer, 2001</small>
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