Leucandra, 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 : 710

GENUS LEUCANDRA HAECKEL, 1872

Type species: Sycinula egedii Schmidt, 1870 .

Diagnosis: ‘ Grantiidae with sylleibid or leuconoid organization. Longitudinal large diactines, if present, are not restricted to the cortex, but lie obliquely across the external part of the sponge wall and protrude from the surface of the sponge’ ( Borojević et al. 2002).