WoRMS name details
Leuconiidae Poléjaeff, 1884
1669571 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1669571)
unaccepted (preoccupied)
Family
Leuconia Grant, 1833 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Poléjaeff, N. (1884). Report on the Keratosa collected by H.M.S.‘Challenger' during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 11 (part 31), 1–88, pl. 1-10., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-31/README.htm [details] 
Nomenclature Sanamyan et al. (2023) proposed to synonymize the family Baeriidae Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000 to Leuconiidae...
Nomenclature Sanamyan et al. (2023) proposed to synonymize the family Baeriidae Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000 to Leuconiidae Breitfuss, 1897. However, we understand that the Zoological Code values, above all, stability and Baeriidae has been used since its proposal in 2000, while Leuconiidae is a family that has had little acceptance and use. Besides, the family names Leuconidae Sars (Crustacea) and Leuconi(i)dae Haeckel/Vosmaer/Breitfuss (Porifera, Calcarea) are in fact homonyms because the one letter difference (Zoological Code - Art. 55.4) is caused by the suffix (-idae or -iidae), whereas the genus part is nomenclaturally the same (Leucon vs. Leuconia) with the possibility to choose the stem in different ways. Family names in the early taxonomic literature often do not have the prescribed stem+idae for names published before 1900 (see Art. 11). Consequently, the WPD prefers to retain the family name Baeriidae. [details]
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. Leuconiidae Poléjaeff, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1669571 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Poléjaeff, N. (1884). Report on the Keratosa collected by H.M.S.‘Challenger' during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 11 (part 31), 1–88, pl. 1-10., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-31/README.htm [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Sanamyan, K.E.; Sanamyan, N.P.; Kukhlevskiy; Shilov, V.A. (2023). New species of calcareous sponges of the family Leuconiidae (Porifera: Calcarea: Baeriida) from Kuril Islands, NW Pacific. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 20(2): 153-179. [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Breitfuss, L.L. (1897). Catalog der Calcarea der Zoologischen Sammlung des Königlichen Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 63 (1): 205-226, 2 figs. [details]
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Nomenclature Sanamyan et al. (2023) proposed to synonymize the family Baeriidae Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000 to Leuconiidae Breitfuss, 1897. However, we understand that the Zoological Code values, above all, stability and Baeriidae has been used since its proposal in 2000, while Leuconiidae is a family that has had little acceptance and use. Besides, the family names Leuconidae Sars (Crustacea) and Leuconi(i)dae Haeckel/Vosmaer/Breitfuss (Porifera, Calcarea) are in fact homonyms because the one letter difference (Zoological Code - Art. 55.4) is caused by the suffix (-idae or -iidae), whereas the genus part is nomenclaturally the same (Leucon vs. Leuconia) with the possibility to choose the stem in different ways. Family names in the early taxonomic literature often do not have the prescribed stem+idae for names published before 1900 (see Art. 11). Consequently, the WPD prefers to retain the family name Baeriidae. [details]Spelling Originally spelled as Leuconidae, but corrected for madatory spelling of faily names (suffix -idae). [details]
