Leucosolenia

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Calcispongeae


Simple, Marine, Colonial, Sedentary sponge.

Form simple and complex colony with numerous vase like projections.

Internal canal system consists of Ostia, Spongocoel and Osculum.

Body wall is thin with phacoderm and choanoderm.

Presence of choanocytes or collar cells.

Asconoid canal system is present.

Feeding by means of canal system.

Reproduction is by sexual and asexual methods with larval stage called

‘parenchymula'