Description

“ Baeriidae in which the choanoskeleton consists of giant triactines and / or tetractines, lying without apparent order, and of very numerous microdiactines. A cavity equivalent to the atrium, localised only under the oscula, has a skeleton supported by tangential triactines. All the other exhalant canals have a skeleton composed of harpoon-shaped pugioles ” (Borojevic et al. 2002).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Calcarea

Order: Baerida

Family: Baeriidae

Genus: Leuconia

Species: Leuconia Grant, 1833