World Porifera Database - Species - Leucomalthe Haeckel, 1872

Porifera taxon details

Leucomalthe Haeckel, 1872

AphiaID

164711 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164711)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Leucomalthe bomba (Haeckel, 1872) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Clathrinida incertae sedis Borojevic, Boury-Esnault, Manuel & Vacelet, 2002

Original name

Leucandra (Leucomalthe) Haeckel, 1872

Synonymised names

Leucandra (Leucomalthe) Haeckel, 1872 · unaccepted

Leucandropa Haeckel, 1872 · unaccepted (Invalid)

Leucandrusa Haeckel, 1872 · unaccepted (Invalid)

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Species Leucomalthe bomba (Haeckel, 1872)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of Leucandra (Leucomalthe) Haeckel, 1872) Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).
page(s): 172 [details]

Taxonomic citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Leucomalthe Haeckel, 1872. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=164711 on 2026-08-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

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2009-09-02 08:18:15Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

2020-12-15 13:26:06Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

2022-08-25 19:29:24Z

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Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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original description (of Leucandropa Haeckel, 1872) Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).
page(s): 172; note: Leucandropa was proposed by Haeckel (1872) as a subsubgenus ("cohors") of the subgenus Leucomalthe (currently genus Leucomalthe). Therefore, it is an invalid taxon. [details]

original description (of Leucandrusa Haeckel, 1872) Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).
page(s): 172; note: Leucandrusa was proposed by Haeckel (1872) as a subsubgenus ("cohors") of the subgenus Leucomalthe (currently, genus Leucomalthe). Therefore, it is an invalid taxon. [details]

original description (of Leucandra (Leucomalthe) Haeckel, 1872) Haeckel, E. (1872). Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. G. Reimer:Berlin. (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).
page(s): 172 [details]

basis of record Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M.; Vacelet, J. (2002 [2004]). Order Clathrinida Hartman, 1958. Pp. 1141-1152. In Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, NY, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M.; Vacelet, J. (2002). Order Clathrinida Hartman, 1958. Pp. 1141-1152. In: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, NY, 1708+xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_118 [details]

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