Leucandra ananas

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Grantiidae
Genus: Leucandra
Species: Leucandra ananas

Name

Leucandra ananas (Montagu, 1814)

• Type material: unknown.
• Type locality: “Devon coast”.

Combinations

• Spongia ananas Montagu, 1814: 96 [original combination]

Synonyms

• Spongia pulverulenta Grant, 1826: 170
  • Type material: unknown.
  • Type locality: “Frith of Forth”, Scotland.

References

Primary references

• Montagu, G. 1814. An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 2(1): 67–122, pls. III–XVI. BHL Reference page. 
• Grant, R.E. 1826. Remarks on the structures of some Calcareous Sponges. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 1: 166–170. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Leucandra ananas in the World Register of Marine Species