Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Leucosolenida > Family Grantiidae > Genus Leucandra

Leucandra aspera (Schmidt, 1862)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sycon Risso, 1827

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leucandra*	Haeckel, 1872	accepted genus name
*Leucogypsia*	Bowerbank, 1862	synonym
*Medon*	Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: cryptic white sponge

Literature

additional source	Hanitsch, R. (1895). Notes on a Collection of Sponges from the West Coast of Portugal. Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society. 9:205-219, pls xii-xii.
additional source	Row, R.W.H. (1909). Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea. XIII. Report on the Sponges, collected by Mr. Cyril Crossland in 1904-5. Part I. Calcarea. Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology. 31 (206): 182-214.
additional source	Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. (1943). Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 854: 1-12.
additional source	Rützler, K. (1986). Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111-126. in: W. Sterrer (ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley & Sons, New York. i-xxx, 1-742.
additional source	Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp.

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Leucandra aspera (Schmidt, 1862). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164278