Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Class Calcarea > Subclass Calcaronea > Order Baeriida > Family Baeriidae > Genus Leuconia

Leuconia johnstonii Carter, 1871

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Baeria Miklucho-Maclay, 1870

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leuconia*	Grant, 1833	accepted genus name
*Baeria*	Miklucho-Maclay, 1870	synonym

Literature

original description	Carter, H.J. (1871). A Description of two new Calcispongiae, to which is added Confirmation of Prof. James Clark's Discovery of the True Form of the Sponge-cell (Animal), and an Account of the Polype-like Pore area of Cliona corallinoides contrasted with Prof. E. Häckel's View on the Relationship of the Sponges to the Corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4(8)43: 1-27, pl.s I-II.
additional source	Ackers, R.G.; Moss, D.; Picton, B.E. (1992). Sponges of the British Isles (‘Sponges V'). A Colour Guide and Working Document. Marine Conservation Society. 1-175.
additional source	Girard-Descatoire, A.; Castric-Fey, A.; L'Hardy-Halos, M.T. (1995). Inventaire de la Faune et de la Flore sur les fonds rocheux autour de l'île d'Ouessant. Rapport ADMS, Direction Régionale de l'Environnement Bretagne, Conseil Régional de Bretagne, Conseil Général du Finistère, Fonds Européens, Rennes., 148pp. Convention ZNIEFF 94.
additional source	Castric-Fey, A. (1996). Richesse et biodiversité en mer mégatidale: communautés sublittorales rocheuses de la région de Trébeurden-Ploumanac'h (Nord Bretagne France). Cahiers de Biologie marine. 37, 7-31.
additional source	Solórzano, M.R. (1990). Poríferos del litoral gallego: estudio faunístico, distribución e inventario. Phd Thesis Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela. 1036 pp.
additional source	Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. pp. 1-44.
additional source	Pouliquen, L. (1972). Les spongiaires des grottes sous-marines de la région de Marseille: Ecologie et systématique. Téthys. 3(4): 717-758.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1891). Spongaires des côtes océaniques de France. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 6: 125-129.
additional source	Descatoire, A. (1969). Peuplements sessiles de l'Archipel de Glénan de l'infralittoral rocheux. I. - Inventaire: Spongiaires. Vie et Milieu (B, Océanographie). 20 (1B): 177-209.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103.

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. Leuconia johnstonii Carter, 1871. 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:132200