Species Leucetta chagosensis Dendy, 1913

Museums

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• Leucetta chagosensis 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 [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1920.12.9.51, Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean [7°28'48"S 72°20'09"E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1925.11.1.1122 (2 parts); BMNH 1925.11.1.1121 (slide only); BMNH 1925.11.1.44.

  Secondary source:

   Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [594].
• Leucetta infrequens Row, R.W.H. & Hôzawa, S. 1931. Report on the Calcarea obtained by the Hamburg South-West Australian Expedition of 1905. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University 4 6: 727-809 17 figs pls 19-21 [747].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (ZMH?), Fremantle district, WA [32°03'S 115°46'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1963. A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges. London : British Museum pp. 1-693 figs 1-375. [241]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow water.

General References

Gross, H., Kehraus, S., König, G.M., Wörheide, G. & Wright, A.D. 2002. New and biologically active Imidazole alkaloids from two sponges of the genus Leucetta. Journal of Natural Products 65(8): 1190-1193 [1191]

Van Oppen, M.J.H., Wörheide, G. & Takabayashi, M. 2002. Nuclear markers in evolutionary and population genetic studies of scleractinian corals and sponges. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali 1: 131-138 [134]

Woerheide, G., Hooper, J.N.A. & Degnan, B.M. 2002. Phylogeography of western Pacific Leucetta 'chagosensis' (Porifera: Calcarea) from ribosomal DNA sequences: implications for population history and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia). Molecular Ecology 11: 1-16? [1]

Wöerheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 1999. Calcarea from the Great Barrier Reef 1: Cryptic Calcinea from Heron Island and Wistari Reef (Capricorn-Bunker Group). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 859-892 [880] (Mentioned in this article)

Woerheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) provide clues for the conservation biology of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Biologue (Australian Biological Resources Study) April 2002: 10-11 [10]

Wörheide, G., Epp, L.S. & Macis, L. 2008. Deep genetic divergences among Indo-Pacific populations of the coral reef sponge Leucetta chagosensis (Leucettidae): Founder effects, vicariance, or both? BMC Evolutionary Biology 8(24): doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-24 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/24 (accessed on 2012-01-01)

WÖRHEIDE, G., HOOPER, J.N.A. & DEGNAN, B.M. 2002. Phylogeography of western Pacific Leucetta 'chagosensis' (Porifera: Calcarea) from ribosomal DNA sequences: implications for population history and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia). Molecular Ecology 11: 1753–1768 [1753]

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