World Porifera Database - Species - Leucaltis bathybia Haeckel, 1869

Porifera name details

Leucaltis bathybia Haeckel, 1869

AphiaID

194738 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:194738)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Leucandra bathybia (Haeckel, 1869)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Dyssycum Haeckel, 1870

Parent

Leucaltis Haeckel, 1872

Original name

Leucaltis bathybia Haeckel, 1869

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Variety Leucaltis bathybia var. arabica Haeckel, 1872 accepted as Leucandra bathybia (Haeckel, 1869) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Variety Leucaltis bathybia var. australiensis Ridley, 1884 accepted as Leucandra bathybia (Haeckel, 1869) (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Variety Leucaltis bathybia var. mascarenica Ridley, 1884 accepted as Leucaltis nodusgordii (Poléjaeff, 1883) (junior synonym)
Variety Leucaltis bathybia var. perimina Haeckel, 1872 accepted as Leucandra bathybia (Haeckel, 1869) (genus transfer and junior synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Haeckel, E. (1869 [1870]). Prodromus eines Systems der Kalkschwämme. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Medicin und Naturwissenschaft. 5: 236-254. [details]

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). [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. Leucaltis bathybia Haeckel, 1869. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=194738 on 2026-09-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-12-17 18:39:48Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-09-04 14:52:15Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description Haeckel, E. (1869 [1870]). Prodromus eines Systems der Kalkschwämme. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Medicin und Naturwissenschaft. 5: 236-254. [details]

original description 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). [details]

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M.; De Voogd, N.J. (2018). Calcareous sponges of the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Zootaxa. 4426 (1): 1-160., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4426.1.1
page(s): 134 [details]

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