Ascandra, HAECKEL, 1872

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 : 687

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GENUS ASCANDRA HAECKEL, 1872 View in CoL

Type species: Ascandra falcata Haeckel, 1872 .

Diagnosis: ‘ Calcinea with loosely anastomosed tubes. Tubes are free, at least in the apical region. The skeleton contains regular (equiangular and equiradiate) or sagittal triactines and tetractines. The apical actine is thin (needle-like) or thick at the base. Diactines may be added. Asconoid aquiferous system’ ( Klautau et al., 2016).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Porifera
Class	Calcarea
SubClass	Calcinea
Order	Clathrinida
Family	Leucaltidae

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