Latrunculia kiwi

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 kiwi

Name

Latrunculia kiwi Kelly & Sim-Smith in Sim-Smith et al., 2022: 61

• Holotype: NIWA 126008, collected by GEOMAR ROV Kiel 6000, onboard RV Sonne, ICBM expedition SO254 on 30 January 2017.
• Type locality: “Stn SO254/02ROV01_BIOBOX4, Kiwi Seamount, Three Kings Ridge (International Waters), 30.733° S, 173.910° E, 759 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.