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

Genus Ascoleucetta Dendy & Frederick, 1924

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.