Leucetta purpurea

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: Leucettidae
Genus: Leucetta
Species: Leucetta purpurea

Name

• Leucetta purpurea Leocorny, Alencar, Fromont & Klautau, 2016: 324

Holotype: WAM Z31426 (= UFRJ-POR 7255), collected by J. Fromont, , M.A. Titelius, C.S. Whisson and G.I. Moore on 1 March 2005.

Type locality: “30º20.36’S, 114º58.81’E Escape Island , Jurien Bay, Western Australia; station: JWAM06/T2; depth: 12–13 meters”.

References

Primary references

• Leocorny, P., Alencar, A.R., Fromont, J. & Klautau, M. 2016. New Leucettidae de Laubenfels, 1936 (Porifera, Calcarea) from Western Australia. Zootaxa 4175(4): 319–334. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.4.2. Reference page. 

Links

• Leucetta purpurea in the World Register of Marine Species