Latrunculia Du Bocage, 1869

Mothes, Beatriz, Campos, Maurício, Eckert, Rafael & Lerner, Cléa, 2008, Latrunculia (Latrunculia) tetraverticillata sp. nov. (Porifera, Poecilosclerida, Latrunculiidae) from the bathyal region off the coast of Santa Catarina State, Brazil, Southwestern Atlantic, Zootaxa 1744, pp. 59-65 : 61

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 ( Samaai et al., 2006).