Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida > Family Leucosoleniidae > Genus Leucosolenia

Leucosolenia complicata (Montagu, 1814)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Spongia Linnaeus, 1759

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leucosolenia*	Bowerbank, 1864	accepted genus name
*Ascortis*	Haeckel, 1872	synonym
*Olynthus*	Haeckel, 1869	synonym

Species group names

*Leucosolenia fabricii*	Schmidt, 1869	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: vertakte witte buisjesspons

English: Barents Sea sponge sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Verzweigter Röhrenkalkschwamm

Literature

additional source	Ferrer Hernández, F. (1914). Esponjas del Cantábrico. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Zoológica). 14: 1-36.
additional source	Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg). Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
additional source	Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. pp. 1-44.
additional source	Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. (1943). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 854: 1-12.
additional source	Burton, M. (1930). Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II.
additional source	Ferrer Hernández, F. (1912). Notas sobre algunas esponjas de Santander. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural de Madrid. 12: 573-588.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1932). Remarques sur des Eponges de l'estuaire de la Rance. Bulletin du Laboratoire maritime du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Saint-Servan. 8: 1-7.
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.
additional source	Stephens, J. (1912). A Biological Survey of Clare Island in the County of Mayo, Ireland and the Adjoining District. Marine Porifera. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 31 (Section 3, Part 59): 1-42.
additional source	Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society. 1-175.
additional source	Rapp, H.T. (2015). A monograph of the calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) of Greenland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95 (7), 1395-1459.
additional source	Stephens, J. (1917). Report on the sponges collected off the coasts of Ireland by the dredging expeditions of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Dublin Society. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 34 (B): 1-16.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
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	Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 1036 pp.

Genbank

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 complicata (Montagu, 1814). 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:132219