Ascoleucetta Dendy & Frederick, 1924

Cavalcanti, Fernanda F., Rapp, Hans Tore & Klautau, Michelle, 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), pp. 275-314 : 299

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.3.3
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scientific name	Ascoleucetta Dendy & Frederick, 1924
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Genus Ascoleucetta Dendy & Frederick, 1924 View in CoL

Diagnosis: Copiously branched and anastomosed choanocyte tubes covered by a well-developed cortex formed mainly by spicules measuring at least the double size of the spicules present in the choanocyte tubes. The exhalant aquiferous system is represented by a well-developed atrium delimited by a membrane with no choanoderm, supported by a specific skeleton of triactines and/or tetractines. Apical actine of the tetractines without spines. Aquiferous system is solenoid.

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Porifera
Class	Calcarea
Order	Clathrinida
Family	Leucascidae

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