Leucascus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Clathrinida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Calcarea Subclassis: Calcinea Ordo: Clathrinida

Familia: Leucascidae
Genus: Leucascus
Species (12): L. albus – L. clavatus – L. digitiformis – L. flavus – L. leptoraphis – L. lobatus – L. neocaledonicus – L. protogenes – L. roseus – L. schleyeri – L. simplex – L. tenuispinae

Name

Leucascus Dendy, 1893: 72

• Type species: Leucascus simplex Dendy, 1893, by subsequent designation by Dendy & Row (1913: 731).

References

Primary references

• Dendy, A. 1893. Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela; with a proposed Classification of the Group and Descriptions of some New Genera and Species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (New Series) 5: 69–116. BHL Reference page. 
• Dendy, A. & Row, R.W.H. 1913. The Classification and Phylogeny of the Calcareous Sponges, with a Reference List of all the described Species, systematically arranged. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 83(3): 704–813. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1913.tb06152.x Reference page. 

Additional references

• Rapp, H.T. 2004. The first record of the genus Leucascus Dendy, 1892 from the Atlantic Ocean, with description of Leucascus lobatus sp. nov. (Porifera, Calcarea, Calcinea) from Greenland. Steenstrupia 28(2): 119–127. PDF. Reference page. 
• Cavalcanti, F.F., Rapp, H.T. & Klautau, M. 2013. Taxonomic revision of Leucascus Dendy, 1892 (Porifera: Calcarea) with revalidation of Ascoleucetta Dendy & Frederick, 1924 and description of three new species. Zootaxa 3619(3): 275–314. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.3.3 Reference page. 
• Klautau, M., Lopes, M.V., Guarabyra, B., Folcher, E., Ekins, M.G. & Debitus, C. 2020. Calcareous sponges from the French Polynesia (Porifera: Calcarea). Zootaxa 4748(2): 261–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.2.3 Reference page. 
• Klautau, M., Lopes, M.V., Tavares, G. & Pérez, T. 2022. Integrative taxonomy of calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) from Réunion Island, Indian Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194(3): 671–725. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab014 Reference page.