Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Poecilosclerida > Suborder Latrunculina > Family Latrunculiidae

Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Microstylifer*	Vacelet, 1969	synonym

Children

Latrunculia (Biannulata) Samaai, Gibbons & Kelly, 2006
Latrunculia (Latrunculia) du Bocage, 1869
Latrunculia rugosa (Vacelet, 1969)
Latrunculia tricincta Hentschel, 1929
Latrunculia triloba (Schmidt, 1875)

Literature

original description	Bocage, J.V. Barboza, Du 1869 [1870]. Eponges siliceuses nouvelles du Portugal et de l’île Saint-Iago (Archipel de Cap-Vert). Jornal de Sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes 2: 159-162, pls X-XI.
basis of record	Samaai, T.; Kelly, M. 2002. Family Latrunculiidae Topsent, 1922. Pp. 708-720. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow).
additional source	Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J.; Kelly, M. 2006. Revision of the genus Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Northeastern Pacific. Zootaxa 1127: 1-71.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132038