Leucascus, DENDY, 1892

Klautau, Michelle, Lopes, Matheus Vieira, Tavares, Gabriela & Pérez, Thierry, 2022, Integrative taxonomy of calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) from Réunion Island, Indian Ocean, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194, pp. 671-725 : 697

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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab014

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6351990

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scientific name

Leucascus
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GENUS LEUCASCUS DENDY, 1892

Type species: Leucascus simplex Dendy, 1892 .

Diagnosis: ‘Copiously branched and anastomosed choanocyte tubes covered by a continuous membrane. The exhalant aquiferous system is represented by a well-developed atrium delimited by a membrane with no choanoderm, supported by a specific skeleton of triactines and/or tetractines. The size of the spicules of the choanocyte tubes and of the cortical and atrial membranes is similar. Apical actine of the tetractines ornamented with spines. Solenoid aquiferous system’ ( Cavalcanti et al., 2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Calcarea

SubClass

Calcinea

Order

Leucosolenida

Family

Grantiidae

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