Heteropia glomerosa
Species of calcareous sponge
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Heteropia glomerosa is a species of calcareous sponge in the family Heteropiidae, and was first described as Leuconia glomerosa in 1873 by James Scott Bowerbank.[2][1] In Australia, the species is found in the IMCRA regions of the Central Western Shelf Transition, Central Western Shelf Province, Northwest Province, and the Central Western Transition (on the north-west Western Australian coastline).[3]
| Heteropia glomerosa | |
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| Plate 4 from Bowerbank[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Calcarea |
| Order: | Leucosolenida |
| Family: | Heteropiidae |
| Genus: | Heteropia |
| Species: | H. glomerosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Heteropia glomerosa | |
The dried type specimen came from Port Elizabeth and brought by Captain Charles Tyler to Bowerbank.[1]
Description
Plate 4 from Bowerbank's description of Leuconia glomerosa[1]
- Fig.1. The type specimenm, natural size.
- Fig.2. One of the equiangular triradiate spicula of the dermal membrane, magnified 80 linear.
- Fig. 3. One of the largest-sized fusiformi-acerate dermal spicula, which has been fractured near its middle and cemented together again: magnified 80 linear.
- Fig. 4. A small-sized fusiformi-acerate dermal spiculum, magnified 80 linear.
- Fig. 5 & 6. Two of the triradiate spicula of the interstitial skeleton, magnified 80 linear.
