Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869

Samaai, Toufiek, Gibbons, Mark J. & Kelly, Michelle, 2006, Revision of the genus Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869 Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Northeastern Pacific (, Zootaxa 1127 (1), pp. 1-71 : 8

Subgenus Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869

Definition. Latrunculia species in which the anisodiscorhabd microscleres have three whorls of spines around the shaft, a basal whorl above the manubrium, and two whorls of projections, the median and subsidiary whorls, located closer to the apical whorl than to the manubrium (hence the use of the prefix aniso­ in anisodiscorhabd). The basal whorl is clearly separated from the manubrium in most species but armours the manubrium in others, making the distinction from the manubrium more difficult.

Type Species. Latrunculia cratera du Bocage, 1869 , by monotypy (lost).