World Porifera Database - Species - Leucosolenia falcata (Haeckel, 1870)

Porifera name details

Leucosolenia falcata (Haeckel, 1870)

AphiaID

236172 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236172)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (genus transfer)

Accepted name

Ascandra falcata Haeckel, 1872

Rank

Species

Parent

Leucosolenia Bowerbank, 1864

Original name

Ascandra falcata Haeckel, 1872

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Ascandra falcata Haeckel, 1872) Haeckel, E. (1870). Prodromus of a system of the Calcareous sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 5: 176-191. [details]

(of Ascandra falcata 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). [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. Leucosolenia falcata (Haeckel, 1870). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=236172 on 2026-09-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-01-04 07:40:16Z

created

de Haas, Henk

2010-01-19 19:05:13Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2023-08-08 13:50:27Z

changed

Boury-Esnault, Nicole

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original description (of Ascandra falcata Haeckel, 1872) Haeckel, E. (1870). Prodromus of a system of the Calcareous sponges. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 5: 176-191. [details]

original description (of Ascandra falcata 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). [details]

additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1914). Esponjas del Cantábrico. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Zoológica). 14: 1-36., available online at http://simurg.urici.csic.es/view/990002628610204201_V1/esponjas-del-cantabrico-vol-1
page(s): 12 [details]

additional source Ferrer Hernández, F. (1918). Esponjas del litoral de Asturias. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Serie Zoologia. 36: 1-39.
page(s): 10 [details]

new combination reference Topsent, E. (1891). Essai sur la faune des spongiaires de Roscoff. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. (2) 9(4): 523-554,pl. XXII. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)