# Thorectidae

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{{Short description|Family of sponges}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Scalarispongia 038.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Scalarispongia scalaris](/source/Scalarispongia_scalaris)''
| taxon = Thorectidae
| authority = [Bergquist](/source/Patricia_Bergquist), 1978<ref name=I>Bergquist, P. R. (1970). ''Sponges''. Berkeley: University of California Press.</ref>
}}

'''Thorectidae''' is a family of [sea sponges](/source/sea_sponges) in the order [Dictyoceratida](/source/Dictyoceratida).

==Genera==
*Subfamily Phyllospongiinae <small>Keller, 1889</small><ref name=II>Keller, C. (1889). Die Spongienfauna des rothen Meeres (1. Hälfte). ''Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie'', 48, 311–405.</ref>
**''[Candidaspongia](/source/Candidaspongia)'' <small>Bergquist, Sorokin & Karuso, 1999</small><ref name=III>Bergquist, P., Sorokin, S. & Karuso, P. (1999). Pushing the boundaries: a new genus and species of Dictyoceratida. ''Memoirs of the Queensland Museum'', 44, 57–62.</ref>
**''[Carteriospongia](/source/Carteriospongia)'' <small>Hyatt, 1877</small><ref name=IV>Hyatt, A. (1877). ''Revision of the North American Poriferæ; with Remarks upon Foreign Species''. Boston: Society of Natural History.</ref>
**''[Lendenfeldia](/source/Lendenfeldia)'' <small>Bergquist, 1980</small><ref name=V>Bergquist, P. R. (1960). A revision of the supraspecific classification of the orders Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, and Verongida (class Demospongiae). ''New Zealand Journal of Zoology'', 7(4), 443–503.</ref>
**''[Phyllospongia](/source/Phyllospongia)'' <small>Ehlers, 1870</small><ref name=VI>Ehlers, E. (1870). ''Die Esper'schen Spongien in der zoologischen Sammlung der K. Universität Erlangen. Programm zum Eintritt in den Senat der Königlichen Friedrich-Alexanders-Universität in Erlangen''. Erlangen: Druck der Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von E. Th. Jacob.</ref>
**''[Strepsichordaia](/source/Strepsichordaia)'' <small>Bergquist, Ayling & Wilkinson, 1988</small><ref name=VII>Bergquist, P. R., Ayling, A. M. & Wilkinson, C. R. (1988). Foliose Dictyoceratida of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. ''Marine Ecology'', 9(4), 291–319.</ref>
*Subfamily Thorectinae <small>Bergquist, 1978</small><ref name=I/>
**''[Aplysinopsis](/source/Aplysinopsis)'' <small>von Lendenfeld, 1888</small><ref name=VIII>von Lendenfeld, R. (1888). ''Descriptive Catalogue of the Spones in the Australian Museum, Sydney''. London: Taylor and Francis.</ref>
**''[Cacospongia](/source/Cacospongia)'' <small>Schmidt, 1862</small><ref name=IX>Schmidt, O. (1862). ''Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres''. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.</ref>
**''[Collospongia](/source/Collospongia)'' <small>Bergquist, Cambie & Kernan, 1990</small><ref name=X>Bergquist, P. R., Cambie, R. C. & Kernan, M. R. (1990). Scalarane sesterterpenes from ''Collospongia auris'', a new thorectid sponge. ''Biochemical Systematics and Ecology'', 18(5), 349–357.</ref>
**''[Dactylospongia](/source/Dactylospongia)'' <small>Bergquist, 1965</small><ref name=XI>Bergquist, P. R. (1965). The sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. ''Pacific Science'', 19, 123–204.</ref>
**''[Fascaplysinopsis](/source/Fascaplysinopsis)'' <small>Bergquist, 1980</small><ref name=V/>
**''[Fasciospongia](/source/Fasciospongia)'' <small>Burton, 1934</small><ref name=XII>Burton, M. (1934). Sponges. ''Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928–29, Scientific Reports'', 4, 513–621.</ref>
**''[Fenestraspongia](/source/Fenestraspongia)'' <small>Bergquist, 1980</small><ref name=V/>
**''[Hyrtios](/source/Hyrtios)'' <small>Duchassaing de Fonbressin & Michelotti, 1864</small><ref name=XIII>Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P. & Michelotti, G. (1864). ''Spongiaires de la Mer Caraïbe''. Haarlem: De Erven Loosjes.</ref>
**''[Luffariella](/source/Luffariella)'' <small>Thiele, 1899</small><ref name=XIV>Thiele, J. (1899). ''Zoologica. Original-Abhandlungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Zoologie''. Stuttgart: Erwin Nägele.</ref>
**''[Narrabeena](/source/Narrabeena)'' <small>de Cook & Bergquist, 2002</small><ref name=XV>de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2002). Family Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978. In Hooper, J. N. A. & van Soest, R. W. N. (Eds.), ''Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges''. Boston: Springer.</ref>
**''[Petrosaspongia](/source/Petrosaspongia)'' <small>Bergquist, 1995</small><ref name=XVI>Bergquist, P. R. (1995). Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, and Verongida from the New Caledonia lagoon (Porifera: Demospongiae). ''Memoirs of the Queensland Museum'', 38, 1–51.</ref>
**''[Scalarispongia](/source/Scalarispongia)'' <small>de Cook & Bergquist, 2000</small><ref name=XVII>de Cook, S. C. & Bergquist, P. R. (2000). Two new genera and five new species of the “''Cacospongia''” group (Porifera, Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida). ''Zoosystema'', 22(2), 383–400.</ref>
**''[Semitaspongia](/source/Semitaspongia)'' <small>de Cook & Bergquist, 2000</small><ref name=XVII/>
**''[Smenospongia](/source/Smenospongia)'' <small>Wiedenmayer, 1977</small><ref name=XVIII>Wiedenmayer, F. (1977). ''Shallow-Water Sponges of the Western Bahamas''. Basel: Springer Basel AG.</ref>
**''[Taonura](/source/Taonura)'' <small>Carter, 1882</small><ref name=XIX>Carter, H. J. (1882). New sponges, observations on old ones, and a proposed new group. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', 10(56), 106–125.</ref>
**''[Thorecta](/source/Thorecta)'' <small>von Lendenfeld, 1888</small><ref name=VIII/>
**''[Thorectandra](/source/Thorectandra)'' <small>von Lendenfeld, 1889</small><ref name=XX>von Lendenfeld, R. (1889). A monograph of the horny sponges. ''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology'', 6(6), 418–423.</ref>
**''[Thorectaxia](/source/Thorectaxia)'' <small>Pulitzer-Finali & Pronzato, 1999</small><ref name=XXI>Pulitzer-Finali, G. & Pronzato, R. (1999). Horny sponges from the north-eastern coast of Papua New Guinea, Bismark Sea. ''Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom'', 79(4), 593–607.</ref>

==References==
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