WoRMS name details
Latrunculia purpurea Carter, 1881
192128 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:192128)
alternative representation (subgenus assignment)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Carter, H.J. (1881). Supplementary Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the Sea in the Vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 7: 361-385, pl. XVIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938109459534
page(s): 380-381 [details]
page(s): 380-381 [details]
Type locality contained in Bassian
type locality contained in Bassian [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.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Latrunculia purpurea Carter, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=192128 on 2026-05-01
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Nomenclature
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Carter, H.J. (1881). Supplementary Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the Sea in the Vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass's Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 7: 361-385, pl. XVIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938109459534
page(s): 380-381 [details]
basis of record Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J.; Kelly, M. (2006). Revision of the genus <i>Latrunculia</i> du Bocage, 1869 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Northeastern Pacific. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1127: 1-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1127.1.1 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 380-381 [details]
basis of record Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J.; Kelly, M. (2006). Revision of the genus <i>Latrunculia</i> du Bocage, 1869 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Northeastern Pacific. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1127: 1-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1127.1.1 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Dijoux, M.G.; Gamble, W.R.; Hallock, Y.F.; Cardellina II, J.H.' Van Soest, R.; Boyd, M.R. (1999). A new discorhabdin from two sponge genera. <em>Journal of Natural Products.</em> 62: 636-637., available online at https://doi.org/10.1021/np980465r
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
