Species Leucaltis clathria Haeckel, 1872

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leucaltis clathria Haeckel, E. 1872. Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. Berlin : Georg Reimer Vol. 1 pp. 1-396; Vol. 2 pp. 1-418; Vol. 3, pls 1-30. [part translated in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4)11: 241–262, 421–430] [159].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ex PMJ (not found), 67 m, coast of Florida, USA [34°05'56"S 56°12'54"W].

  Secondary source:

   Dendy, A. 1913. Report on the calcareous sponges collected by H.M.S. Sealark in the Indian Ocean. In Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 5. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 16: 1-29 pls 1-5 [17]; Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [598].
• Heteropegma nodusgordii Poléjaeff, N. 1884. Report on the Calcarea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 8: 1-76 pls 1-9 [45].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1884.4.22.23 (2 parts, wet and dry), Cape York, QLD [10°43'S 142°28'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [598].

  Secondary source:

   Fell, H.B. 1950. The Kirk Collection of sponges (Porifera) in the Zoology Museum, Victoria University College. Zoological Publications of Victoria University College 4: 1-12 1 pl. [9].
• Leucaltis bathybia mascarenica Ridley, S.O. 1884. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. Alert, 1881–2. Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. Spongiida. London : British Museum (Natural History) 582-630 pls 53-54. [628].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1882.10.17.83 Seychelles, 6–20 m, Seychelles, Indian Ocean [9°48'14"S 50°17'34"E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1884.10.17.85 Seychelles, [9°48'14"S 50°17'34"E]; BMNH 1956.4.26.56 paralectotype (probable, slide), Mascarene Ils, Indian Ocean [22°15'53"S 56°21'21"E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [597] (ambiguously designated as one of three specimens from the Seychelles).
• Clathrina latitubulata Carter, H.J. 1886. Description of sponges from the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads, South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 17: 431-441, 502-516 [515].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1887.7.12.8 though only one specimen originally mentioned, wet (south coast), Port Phillip Heads (and Westernport Bay), VIC [38°07'S 144°48'E and 38°22'S 145°20'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1887.7.12.48 or second part of holotype, dry.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [598].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The classification and phylogeny of the calcareous sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 704-813 [738]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–82 m.

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] (this taxon probably comprises several sibling species, but their accurate separation is unclear at present)

Woerheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2003. New species of Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea) from cryptic habitats of the southern Great Barrier Reef (Heron Island and Wistari Reef, Capricorn-Bunker Group, Australia). Journal of Natural History 37: 1-47 [877] (Mentioned in this article)

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