Latrunculia crenulata Lévi, 1993

Kelly, Michelle, Sim-Smith, Carina, Stone, Robert, Reiswig, Toufiek Samaai Henry & Austin, William, 2016, New taxa and arrangements within the family Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida), Zootaxa 4121 (1), pp. 1-48 : 38

Latrunculia crenulata Lévi, 1993 incertae sedis

Latrunculia crenulata Lévi, 1993 was assigned to subgenus Latrunculia by Samaai et al. (2006) despite there being no anisodiscorhabds of normal length and form. Rather, the microscleres strongly resemble the cricophalangasters of Schrammen (1924, Pl. 7, Fig. 41–42, Late Cretaceous of Lower Saxony, northern Germany), and the cricorhabds of Reif (1967, Pl. 13, Fig. 2 , Late Jurassic of the Swabian Alb, southern Germany), figured by Wiedenmayer (1994, Fig. 22.14–15, Fig. 17.27, respectively). These were not identified as being from latrunculid taxa. Latrunculia (L.) crenulata has been transferred from subgenus Latrunculia to Latrunculia incertae sedis until further material can be examined ( Table 9 ).

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FIGURE 2. Distribution of North Pacific Latrunculiidae species: A. Gulf of Alaska, U. S. A and British Columbia, Canada; B. Central Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska, U. S. A. Locality data for the four Kurile Island specimens of Latrunculia (Uniannulata) oparinae subgen. nov. taken from Samaai & Krasokhin (2002) and Samaai et al. (2006). L = Latrunculia, B = Bomba gen. nov.