Leucetta solida
Authors/Creators
- 1. TUBITAK-MAM Research Center, 41470 Gebze Kocaeli
- 2. Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, 35100, Bornova, İzmir
Description
Leucetta solida (Schmidt, 1862)
(Figure 7)
Grantia solida Schmidt, 1862: 18, Taf I., 7.
Leuconia solida, Rützler 1965: 8.
Material examined: ESFM-POR/2017-477, S17(a), 0–2 m, on Posidonia oceanica, 3 specimens, ESFM-POR/2017- 728, S26, 25 m, on cave wall, 3 specimens, ESFM-POR/2017-632, S29, 15 m, on cave wall, 4 specimens, ESFM-POR/2017-165, S33, 0.5 m, on P. oceanica, 2 specimens.
Description: It is an oval sponge that is slightly flattened on the sides. The surface is hispid. It has a creamy colour in alcohol (Figure 7a). It has a rather fragile consistency, easily torn into apart. The skeleton is composed of irregularly intertwined triactines (900–2400 × 40–200 µm) (Figure 7b 1) and tetractins (800–600 × 40–80 µm, Figure 7b 2). Skeletons do not contain diaxones.
Habitat and distribution: This species was previously found on rocks at 2–40 m (Longo & Pronzato 2011; de Voogd et al. 2024) in the Tyrrhenian (Rützler 1966), Adriatic (Schmidt 1864, Rützler 1965), Ionian (Corriero 1989) and Aegean (Pansini et al. 2000) Seas. It is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea (de Voogd et al. 2024). It is a new record for the Turkish marine fauna.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Material sample ID
- ESFM-POR/2017- 728 , ESFM-POR/2017-165 , ESFM-POR/2017-477 , ESFM-POR/2017-632
- Scientific name authorship
- Schmidt
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Order
- Clathrinida
- Family
- Leucettidae
- Genus
- Leucetta
- Species
- solida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leucetta solida (Schmidt, 1862) sec. Evcen & Çinar, 2025
References
- Schmidt, O. (1862) Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, viii + 88 pp.
- Rutzler, K. (1965) Systematik und Okologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Okologie der Tiere, 55 (1), 1-82. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00409339
- Longo, C. & Pronzato, R. (2011) Fauna d'Italia - Porifera I. Calcarea, Demospongiae (partim) Hexactinellida, Homoscleromorpha. Calderini, Milano, 554 pp.
- de Voogd, N. J., Alvarez, B., Boury-Esnault, N., Cardenas, P., Diaz, 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., Rios, P., Rutzler, K., Schonberg, C., Turner, T., Vacelet, J., van Soest, R. W. M. & Xavier, J. (2024) World Porifera Database. Available from: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera (accessed 30 December 2024) https://doi.org/10.14284/359
- Rutzler, K. (1966) Die Poriferen einer sorrentiner Hohle. Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Tyrrhenia-Expedition 1952. Teil. XVIII. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 176 (5), 303-319.
- Schmidt, O. (1864) Supplement der Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. In: Enthaltend die Histologie und systematische Erganzungen. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, pp. i - vi + 1 - 48, pls. 1-4.
- Corriero, G. (1989) The sponge fauna from the Stagnone di Marsala (Sicily): taxonomic and ecological observations. Bolletino Museo Istituto Biologia Universita Genova, 53, 101-113.
- Pansini, M., Morri, C. & Bianchi, C. N. (2000) The sponge community of a subtidal area with hydrothermal vents: Milos Island, Aegean Sea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 51, 627-635. https://doi.org/10.1006/ecss.2000.0674