Biology:Leucetta villosa

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Short description: Species of sponge

Leucetta villosa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Calcarea
Order: Clathrinida
Family: Leucettidae
Genus: Leucetta
Species:
L. villosa
Binomial name
Leucetta villosa
Wörheide & Hooper, 1999[1]

Lua error in Module:Mapframe at line 384: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'lat_d' (a nil value). Leucetta villosa is a species of calcareous sponge in the family Leucettidae, and was first described in 1999 by Gert Wörheide and John Hooper.[3][1] The species epithet, villosa, comes from the Latin, villosus ("hairy"), and was given because of the "hair-like extensions on the sponge surface".[1]

It is found in Queensland coastal waters,[2] where occurs in waters with surface temperatures of 20 to 25 °C.[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2393119 entry