Latrunculiidae

Latrunculia lunaviridis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poecilosclerida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Poecilosclerida

Familia: Latrunculiidae
Genera (10): Biverticillus – Bomba – Cyclacanthia – Latrunclava – Latrunculia – Latrundiabolo – Latrunpagoda – Sceptrella – Strongylodesma – Tsitsikamma

Name

Latrunculiidae Topsent, 1922

References

Primary references

• Topsent, E. 1922. Les mégasclères polytylotes des Monaxonides et la parenté des Latrunculiines. Bulletin de l’Institut océanographique 415: 1–8.

Additional references

• Samaai, T. & Kelly, M. 2002. Family Latrunculiidae Topsent, 1922. Pp. 708–720 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 
• Samaai, T., Govender, V. & Kelly, M. 2004. Cyclacanthia n.g. (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Latrunculiidae incertea sedis), a new genus of marine sponges from South African waters, and description of two new species. Zootaxa 725(1): 1–18. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.725.1.1 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M., Sim-Smith, C., Stone, R., Samaai, T., Reiswig, H.M. & Austin, W.C. 2016. New taxa and arrangements within the family Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida). Zootaxa 4121(1): 1–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.1.1 Reference page. 
• Payne, R., Samaai, T. & Kelly, M. 2022. New Latrunculiidae genus (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) from the Madagascar Ridge. Zootaxa 5105(2): 296–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.2.9 Reference page. 
• Sim-Smith, C., Janussen, D., Ríos, P., Macpherson, D. & Kelly, M. 2022. The Marine Biota of New Zealand: A review of New Zealand and Antarctic latrunculid sponges with new taxa and new systematic arrangements within family Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 134: 1–144. PDF Reference page.