WoRMS name details

Leucophloeus lewisi van Soest & Stentoft, 1988

192256  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192256)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Porifera (Phylum)
  4. Demospongiae (Class)
  5. Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
  6. Suberitida (Order)
  7. Halichondriidae (Family)
  8. Leucophloeus (Genus)
  9. Leucophloeus lewisi (Species)
 unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. (1988). Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. <i>In</i>: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands.</em> 70(215): 1-175.
page(s): 95-97; fig 46 [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  ZMA Por. 05401, geounit Eastern Caribbean  
Holotype ZMA Por. 05401, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]
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. Leucophloeus lewisi van Soest & Stentoft, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=192256 on 2025-03-31
Date
action
by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-08-27 08:53:24Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.
2015-11-21 22:41:21Z
changed
van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. (1988). Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. <i>In</i>: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands.</em> 70(215): 1-175.
page(s): 95-97; fig 46 [details] OpenAccess publication

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Zea, S.; Valderrama, D.; Martínez, A.M. (2013). <i>Axinyssa ambrosia</i> and <i>Axinyssa yumae</i> (Porifera, Halichondrida): two valid sponge species from the Caribbean Sea. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3682 (3): 495–500. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype ZMA Por. 05401, geounit Eastern Caribbean [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Díaz et al. 1993 assigned this to the synonymy of Axinyssa ambrosia, along with Dictyonella yumae. Zea et al. 2013 revived Dictyonella yumae as a valid species of Axinyssa and reassigned Leucophloeus lewisi to the synonymy of A. yumae. [details]

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