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

Leucosolenia somesii (Bowerbank, 1874)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Leuconia Grant, 1833

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Literature

basis of record	Van Soest, R.W.M.; De Kluijver, M.J.; Van Bragt, P.H.; Faasse, M.; Nijland, R.; Beglinger, E.J.; de Weerdt, W.H.; de Voogd, N.J. (2007). Sponge invaders in Dutch coastal waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 87 (6): 1733-1748.

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 somesii (Bowerbank, 1874). 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:395014