Latrunculia magistra

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 magistra

Name

Latrunculia magistra Kelly & Sim-Smith in Sim-Smith et al., 2022: 65

• Holotype: NIWA 143571, microscope slide of Bergquist (1968) labelled ‘Latrunculia brevis from the Three Kings’, collected on 22 October 1958. [specimen lost]
• Type locality: “Stn B93, east of Three Kings Islands, 34° S, 172.5° E, 55–110 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.