Leucosolenida: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Class
- Calcarea
- Order
- Leucosolenida
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Leucosolenida
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Leucosolenida
Leucosolenida is an order of sponges in the class Calcarea and the subclass Calcaronea. Species in Leucosolenida are calcareous, with a skeleton composed exclusively of free spicules without calcified non-spicular reinforcements.
According to Systema Porifera (2002), Lucosolenida contains 9 families, ranging from fully asconoid forms (Leucosoleniidae) to fully leuconoid forms. These body plans are on a continuum based on an increasingly complex skeletal system and compartmentalized choanocytes. A few sources (such as the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 2004) place non-asconoid families into a separate order, Sycettida. Leucosolenids have a poor fossil record, with only a few ambiguous grantiid fossils reported from the Jurassic and Carboniferous.
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