Biology:Heteropia glomerosa

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Short description: Species of calcareous sponge

Heteropia glomerosa
Plate4 Leuconia glomerosa proceedingsofgen73zool 0032.png
Plate 4 from Bowerbank[1]
Scientific classification edit
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

Wikidata ☰ Q2984934 entry