Leucaltidae Dendy & Row, 1913

Van Soest, Rob W. M. & De Voogd, Nicole J., 2015, Calcareous sponges of Indonesia, Zootaxa 3951 (1), pp. 1-105 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3951.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14950931
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scientific name	Leucaltidae Dendy & Row, 1913
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Family Leucaltidae Dendy & Row, 1913 View in CoL

Genus Ascandra Haeckel, 1872 View in CoL

Remarks. The genus is assigned to Leucaltidae in the Systema Porifera, but it resembles loosely built Clathrinidae , with the added peculiarity that the continuous choanoderm is folded over the long apical actines of the tetractines. The latter occur usually in larger proportions than the triactines. Skeleton not differentiated in cortical and atrial skeleton. In the molecular sequence analysis of Klautau et al. (2013) members of the genus appeared to end up with the Clathrinidae clade.