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Leucettusa

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Leucettusa is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Leucaltidae.^[1] The species of this genus are mostly known from the Arctic and Antarctic, New Zealand and Southwest Australia.^[2]

Species have a simple tubular body with a large atrium, and choanocyte chambers which are either elongated, spherical or both.^[2]

The following species are recognised:^[1]

^ ^a ^b "Leucettusa Haeckel, 1872". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b Borojevic, Radovan; Boury-Esnault, Nicole; Manuel, Michaël; Vacelet, Jean (2002), Hooper, John N. A.; Van Soest, Rob W. M.; Willenz, Philippe (eds.), "Order Clathrinida Hartman, 1958", Systema Porifera, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 1141–1152, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_118, ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2, retrieved 2021-08-21

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Leucettusa is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Leucaltidae. The species of this genus are mostly known from the Arctic and Antarctic, New Zealand and Southwest Australia.