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Species of calcareous sponge

Heteropia glomerosa
Plate 4 from Bowerbank
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Calcarea
Order: Leucosolenida
Family: Heteropiidae
Genus: Heteropia
Species: H. glomerosa
Binomial name
Heteropia glomerosa
(Bowerbank, 1873)

Heteropia glomerosa is a species of calcareous sponge in the family Heteropiidae, and was first described as Leuconia glomerosa in 1873 by James Scott Bowerbank. In Australia, the species is found in the IMCRA regions of the Central Western Shelf Transition, Central Western Shelf Province, Northwest Province, and the Central Western Transition (on the north-west Western Australian coastline).

The dried type specimen came from Port Elizabeth and brought by Captain Charles Tyler to Bowerbank.

Description

Plate 4 from Bowerbank's description of Leuconia glomerosa

  1. Fig.1. The type specimenm, natural size.
  2. Fig.2. One of the equiangular triradiate spicula of the dermal membrane, magnified 80 linear.
  3. Fig. 3. One of the largest-sized fusiformi-acerate dermal spicula, which has been fractured near its middle and cemented together again: magnified 80 linear.
  4. Fig. 4. A small-sized fusiformi-acerate dermal spiculum, magnified 80 linear.
  5. Fig. 5 & 6. Two of the triradiate spicula of the interstitial skeleton, magnified 80 linear.

References

  1. ^ J. S. Bowerbank (1873). "Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part IV". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1873: 3–25, Pl.I-IV. ISSN 0370-2774. Wikidata Q100998914. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Van Soest, R.W.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schönberg, C.; Klautau, M.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J.L.; Ríos, P.; Downey, R.; Morrow, C.C. (2020). "World Porifera Database Heteropia glomerosa (Bowerbank, 1873)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  3. "Australian Faunal Directory: Heteropia glomerosa". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
Taxon identifiers
Heteropia glomerosa


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