Heteropia glomerosa

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Heteropia glomerosa
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Plate 4 from Bowerbank [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Calcarea
Order: Leucosolenida
Family: Heteropiidae
Genus: Heteropia
Species:
H. glomerosa
Binomial name
Heteropia glomerosa
(Bowerbank, 1873) [2] [1]

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. [2] [1] 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). [3]

The dried type specimen came from Port Elizabeth and brought by Captain Charles Tyler to Bowerbank. [1]

Description

Plate 4 from Bowerbank's description of Leuconia glomerosa [1]

  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. 1 2 3 4 5 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.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  2. 1 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.


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