Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Parazoa
Phylum: Porifera
Classis: Calcarea
Subclassis: Calcinea
Ordo: Clathrinida
Familia: Leucaltidae
Genus: Ascandra
Species (17): A. ascandroides – A. atlantica – A. biscayae – A. brandtae – A. chrysops – A. contorta – A. corallicola – A. crewsi – A. densa – A. falcata – A. izuensis – A. kakaban – A. mascarenica – A. minchini – A. oceanusvitae – A. sertularia – A. spalatensis
Name
Ascandra Haeckel, 1872: 80
Type species: Ascandra falcata Haeckel, 1872, by monotypy.
References
Primary references
Haeckel, E. 1872. Die Kalkschwämme. Eine Monographie in zwei Bänden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. Georg Reimer: Berlin. [Vol. 1: 1–484 pp. BHL; Vol. 2: 1–418 pp. BHL; Vol. 3: 1–60 pls. BHL] DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.11323 Reference page.
Additional references
Klautau, M., Imešek, M., Azevedo, F., Pleše, B., Nikolić, V. & Ćetković, H. 2016. Adriatic calcarean sponges (Porifera, Calcarea), with the description of six new species and a richness analysis. European Journal of Taxonomy 178: 1–52. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.178 Reference page.
Klautau, M., Lopes, M.V., Tavares, G. & Pérez, T. 2022. Integrative taxonomy of calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) from Réunion Island, Indian Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194(3): 671–725. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab014 Open access Reference page.
Ascandra is a genus of calcareous sponges of the family Leucaltidae and are found in oceans around the world.
Species
As of 2019, 15 valid species of Ascandra are recognized:[1]
Ascandra ascandroides (Borojevic, 1971)
Ascandra atlantica (Thacker, 1908)
Ascandra biscayae (Borojevic & Boury-Esnault, 1987)
Ascandra brandtae (Rapp, Göcke, Tendal & Janussen, 2013)
Ascandra contorta (Bowerbank, 1866)
Ascandra corallicola (Rapp, 2006)
Ascandra crewsi Van Soest & De Voogd, 2015
Ascandra densa Haeckel, 1872
Ascandra falcata Haeckel, 1872
Ascandra izuensis (Tanita, 1942)
Ascandra kakaban Van Soest & De Voogd, 2015
Ascandra loculosa (Dendy, 1891)
Ascandra minchini Borojevic, 1966
Ascandra sertularia Haeckel, 1872
Ascandra spalatensis Klautau, Imesek, Azevedo, Plese, Nikolic & Cetkovic, 2016
References
Ascandra Haeckel, 1872. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 23 January 2019.
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