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The Kirk Collection of Sponges (Porifera) in the Zoology Museum, Victoria University College
Genus Leucandra Haeckel 1872
Genus Leucandra Haeckel 1872
Leucandra gladiator Dendy
A. Dendy Proc.Roy.Soc.Victoria, 5 (N.S.), 101 (1893)
Holotype (merotype) from outside Port Phillip Heads, coll. J. B. Wilson. Dendy states that only a single specimen was taken.
Leucandra phillipensis Dendy
A. Dendy Proc.Roy.Soc.Victoria, 5 (N.S.), 100 (1893)
Holotype (merotype) from near Port Phillip Heads, coll. J. B. Wilson. Dendy states that only a single specimen was taken.
Leucandra microraphis (Haeckel)
E. Haeckel Kalkschwaeme, 2, 119 (1872)
From near Port Phillip Heads, coll. J. B. Wilson. Dendy (1893, p. 105) states that a number of specimens were taken from this, and other Australian localities.
Leucandra australiensis (Carter)
H. J. Carter Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist., p. 127 (1886)
From Port Phillip Heads, Station 14, coll. J. B. Wilson, Dendy's registration number RN150. Brondsted (1926) has since reported this species from Little Barrier Island, New Zealand, in 30 fathoms.
Leucandra hispida (Carter)
H. J. Carter Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist., p. 128 (1886)
From near Port Phillip Heads, coll. J. B. Wilson. See Dendy (1893) p. 99 for fuller details.