Latrunculia nelumbo

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 (Latrunculia)
Species: Latrunculia nelumbo

Name

Latrunculia nelumbo Kelly & Sim-Smith in Sim-Smith et al., 2022: 46

• Holotype: NHMUK 1887.5.2.269 (microscope slides), collected by Kerguelen HMS Challenger Expedition 1873–76 on 14 February 1876.
• Type locality: “Stn 320, Rio de la Plata, Argentina-Uruguay, 37.283° S, 53.867° W, 1097 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.