Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida > Family Grantiidae

Leucandra Haeckel, 1872

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leucogypsia*	Bowerbank, 1862	synonym

Children

Leucandra ananas (Montagu, 1814)
Leucandra aspera (Schmidt, 1862)
Leucandra balearica Lackschewitz, 1886
Leucandra barbata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Leucandra bolivari Ferrer-Hernandez, 1916
Leucandra bulbosa Hanitsch, 1895
Leucandra caminus Haeckel, 1872
Leucandra fistulosa (Johnston, 1842)
Leucandra gossei (Bowerbank, 1862)
Leucandra nausicaae (Schuffner, 1877)
Leucandra polejaevi (Breitfuss, 1896)
Leucandra pumila (Bowerbank, 1866)
Leucandra rodriguezi (Lackschewitz, 1886)

Literature

original description	Haeckel, E. 1872b. Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. (G. Reimer:Berlin): (1: 1-484) 2: 1-418 (3: pls 1-60).
basis of record	Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M.; Vacelet, J. (2002). Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 1157-1184
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Leucandra Haeckel, 1872. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131704