Leucascus boomerang

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Clathrinida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Classis: Calcarea Subclassis: Calcinea Ordo: Clathrinida

Familia: Leucascidae
Genus: Leucascus
Species: Leucascus boomerang

Name

Leucascus boomerang Klautau, Lopes, Tavares, Rizzieri, Sorokin, Fromont, Goudie, Crowther, McCormack, George & Wahab, 2024: 14

• Holotype: SAMA S1886, collected by Great Australian Bight Research Program (GABRP) on 7 December 2015.
• Type locality: “GAB, 34°17ʹ30″S, 132°42ʹ24″E, depth: 283 m”.

References

Primary references

• Klautau, M., Lopes, M.V., Tavares, G., Rizzieri, R., Sorokin, S., Fromont, J., Goudie, L., Crowther, A., McCormack, S., George, A.M. & Wahab, M.A.A. [2024] 2025. Calcinean sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) from the shelf edge of the Great Australian Bight. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203(3): zlae041. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae041 Reference page.