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Taxon: Family Pheronematidae Gray, 1870 (sponge)

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Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:			J.E. Gray, 1870, nom. corr.
Original name & rank	:			Gray, J.E. 1870. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 6 (34): 310 ("a family, which may be called Pheronemadæ").
Subsequent spelling	:			Ijima, 1927: 5.
Subsequent publication	:			Gray, J.E. 1872. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) IX (54): 450 ("Pteronemadæ"). [based on incorrect subsequent spelling of Pheronema].

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2]

Ref: R.E.H. Reid, 2004e. In R.M. Finks, R.E.H. Reid & J.K. Rigby, Volume 3: Porifera (Demospongea, Hexactinellida, Heteractinida, Calcarea). In R.L. Kaesler (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part E, Porifera (Revised). The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas, Boulder, Colorado, and Lawrence, Kansas: 450 ("nom. correct.").

Types

Type

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Pheronema (Genus) Leidy, 1868

Ref: R.M. Finks et al., 2004: table 1 (p. 804). [inferred]

Synonyms

Synonymous name	:	*Corythophoridae* (Family) de Laubenfels, 1936		Ref: R.W.M. van Soest et al. (eds.): [26 Feb 2015].
Synonymous name	:	*Semperellidae* (Family) F.E. von Schulze		Ref: H.G. Hansson (comp.), 1996-1999

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