Latrunculia apicalis

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Latrunculiidae
Genus: Latrunculia
Subgenus: Latrunculia (Aciculatrunculia)
Species: Latrunculia apicalis

Name

Latrunculia apicalis Ridley & Dendy, 1886: 492

• Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.88a (microscope slide), collected by HMS Challenger Expedition 1873–76 on 29 January 1874.
• Type locality: “off Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen [Island, 48.678° S, 69.021° E], 70 fath. [=128 m]”.

Combinations

• Latrunculia (Latrunculia) apicalis — Samaai, Gibbons & Kelly, 2006, 2006: 17 [subsequent combination, subgenus]
• Latrunculia (Aciculatrunculia) apicalis — Sim-Smith, Janussen, Ríos, Macpherson & Kelly, 2022: 105 [subsequent combination, subgenus]

References

Primary references

• Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 5 18: 325–351 (Part I: BHL); 470–493 (Part II: BHL) Reference page. 
• Samaai, T., Gibbons, M.J. & Kelly, M. 2006. Revision of the genus Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Northeastern Pacific. Zootaxa 1127(1): 1–71. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1127.1.1 Reference page. 
• 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.