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'