Latrunculia bransfieldi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poecilosclerida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Poecilosclerida

Familia: Latrunculiidae
Genus: Latrunculia
Subgenus: Latrunculia (Latrunculia)
Species: Latrunculia bransfieldi

Name

Latrunculia bransfieldi Kelly & Sim-Smith in Sim-Smith et al., 2022: 68

• Holotype: SMF 11191, collected by RV Polarstern 2013 LASSO Expedition on 24 February 2013.
• Type locality: “Stn 196-8 AGT15 v.130, Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, 62.783° S, 55.133° W, 580 m”.

References

Primary references

• Sim-Smith, C., Janussen, D., Ríos, P., Macpherson, D. & Kelly, M. 2022. The Marine Biota of New Zealand: A review of New Zealand and Antarctic latrunculid sponges with new taxa and new systematic arrangements within family Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 134: 1–144. PDF Reference page.