Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcinea > Order Clathrinida > Family Leucaltidae > Genus Leucaltis

Leucaltis clathria Haeckel, 1872

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leucaltis*	Haeckel, 1872	accepted genus name

Literature

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).
additional source	Wörheide, G.; Hooper, J.N.A. (1999). Calcarea from the Great Barrier Reef. 1: Cryptic Calcinea from Heron Island and Wistari Reef (Capricorn-Bunker Group). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 43 (2): 859-891.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2017). Sponges of the Guyana Shelf. Zootaxa. 4217: 1-225.
additional source	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).
additional source	Dendy, A. (1913). The Percy Sladen trust expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905 (V). I. Report on the Calcareous Sponges collected by HMS ‘Sealark' in the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2 (16): 1-29.
additional source	Borojevic, R.; Klautau, M. (2000). Calcareous sponges from New Caledonia. Zoosystema. 22 (2): 187-201.
additional source	Tanita, S. (1943). Studies on the Calcarea of Japan. Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University. 17: 353-490.
additional source	Borojevic, R.; Peixinho, S. (1976). Eponges calcaires du Nord-Nord-Est du Brésil. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 3(402): 987-1036.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M.; De Voogd, N.J. (2015). Calcareous sponges of Indonesia. Zootaxa. 3951(1): 1-105.
additional source	Fontana, T.; Cóndor-Luján, B.; Azevedo, F.; Pérez, T.; Klautau, M. (2018). Diversity and distribution patterns of Calcareous sponges (subclass Calcinea) from Martinique. Zootaxa. 4410 (2): 331-369.
additional source	Borojevic, R. (1998). Class Calcarea. The calcareous sponges. Pp. 73-79. In: Lévi, C. (Ed.), Sponges of the New Caledonian Lagoon. ORSTOM, Collection Faune et Flore tropicales, Paris. 23: 1-214.
additional source	Muricy, G.; Esteves, E.L.; Moraes, F.C.; Santos, J.P.; da Silva, S.M.; Klautau, M.; Lanna, E. (2008). Biodiversidade Marinha da Bacia Potiguar. Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Série Livros. 29: 1-156.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103.
additional source	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).
additional source	Arndt, W. (1941). Eine neuere Ausbeute von Meeresschwämmen der West- und Südküsten Portugals. Mit einer Übersicht über die bisher an und vor den Küsten Portugals nachgewiesenen rezenten Spongienarten überhaupt und Bemerkungen über nutzbare Schwämme in portugesischen Gewässern. Coimbra Editoria, Lda. Coimbra: Pp. 1-75.
additional source	Lanna, E.; Cavalcanti, F.F.; Cardoso, L.; Muricy, G.; Klautau, M. (2009). Taxonomy of calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) from Potiguar Basin, NE Brazil. Zootaxa. 1973: 1-27.
additional source	Hôzawa, S. (1940). Reports on the calcareous sponges obtained by the Zoological Institute and Museum of Hamburg. Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University. 15: 131-163.
redescription	Lopes, M.V.; Klautau, M. (2023). Phylogeny and revision of Leucaltis and Leucettusa (Porifera: Calcarea), with new classification proposals and description of a new type of aquiferous system. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 198 (3): 691–746.

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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 clathria Haeckel, 1872. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132290