For the town of ancient Ionia in Asia Minor, see Leuconia (Ionia).
Leuconia
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Calcarea
Order:
Baerida
Family:
Baeriidae
Genus:
Leuconia Grant, 1833
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Baeria Miklucho-Maclay, 1870
Leuconia is a genus of calcareous sponges in the family Baeriidae. It was described by English anatomist and zoologist Robert Edmond Grant in 1833.[2]
^Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schönberg, C.; Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J. L.; Ríos, P.; Downey, R. (2018). "Leuonia Grant, 1833". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
^Grant, R. E. (1833). Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Animal Physiology. Lecture IV. On the classification of the organs of animals, and on the organs of support in animalcules and poripherous animals. The Lancet, 1(531), 193–200.
species of Leuconia are accepted in the World Porifera database: Leuconia alaskensis de Laubenfels, 1953 Leuconia dura (Hozawa, 1929) Leuconia gladiator...
the water through diffusion. Sponges pump remarkable amounts of water. Leuconia, for example, is a small leuconoid sponge about 10 cm tall and 1 cm in...
thus makes it easier for them to trap food particles. For example, in Leuconia, a small leuconoid sponge about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) tall and 1 centimetre...
calcareous sponge in the family Heteropiidae, and was first described as Leuconia glomerosa in 1873 by James Scott Bowerbank. In Australia, the species is...
his classic Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by mentioning Leuconia, the ancient Ptolemaic name for the Philippines. Colonial income derived...
synonym of Leuconia Grant, 1833. The following genera are in the family Baeriidae: Eilhardia Poléjaeff, 1883 Lamontia Kirk, 1895 Leuconia Grant, 1833...
his classic Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by mentioning Leuconia, the ancient Ptolemaic name for the Philippines. The study of medicine...
name and may refer to two different genera: Lasthenia, genus of flowers Leuconia, a genus of sea sponges Baiera This disambiguation page lists articles...
contains one species, Leucopsila stylifera, which was originally described as Leuconia stylifera in 1870. The genus was described by Dendy & Row in 1913. Schmidt...
bidentata (Montagu, 1808) - type species Winckworth R. (1949). "A new name for Leuconia Gray". Journal of Conchology 23: 38. London. Gofas, S. (2012). Auriculinella...
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