Species Rowella haeckeliana (Poléjaeff, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leucetta haeckeliana 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.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1884.22.62–1884.22.64 Three syntypes, Off Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°51ʹS, 151°15ʹE].

Generic Combinations

• Leucettusa haeckeliana (Poléjaeff, 1883). —
  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
• Rowella haeckeliana (Poléjaeff, 1883). —
  Lopes, M.V. & Klautau, M. 2023. Phylogeny and revision of Leucaltis and Leucettusa (Porifera: Calcarea), with new classification proposals and description of a new type of aquiferous system. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198(3): 691–746

Introduction

Reported as Leucettusa sp. 1 from Ling Hole, Tasmania by Voigt et al. (2012).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

General References

Voigt, O., Wülfing, E. & Wörheide, G. 2012. Molecular phylogenetic evaluation of classification and scenarios of character evolution in calcareous sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea). PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 7(3): e33417

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