Leucaltis bathybia Haeckel 1872

Leucaltis bathybia Haeckel, 1872 Next to Haeckel���s (1872: 156) description, there are three additional records, (1) by Row (1909: 205) from Suez as Leucilla bathybia, (2) by Burton (1952: 164) from the Gulf of Aqaba as Leuconia, and (3) by L��vi (1965: 25) from the southern Red Sea, also as Leuconia. Neither Row nor L��vi provided a description, so we cannot comment. Burton (1952) gave a partial description, which may indicate his specimens belonged to Paraleucilla crosslandi (see above in the remarks of that species). The species as described by Haeckel (1872: 156) is also discussed above under Leucaltis nodusgordii and under Paraleucilla crosslandi. Its identity remains to be decided from redescription of the type material, ZMB 326.
Published as part of Van, Rob W. M. & De, Nicole J., 2018, Calcareous sponges of the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4426 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4426.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1271239
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