Leucetta chagosensis

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| image = Leucetta chagosensis Voavah.JPG

| taxon = Leucetta chagosensis

| authority = Dendy, 1913

| synonyms = Leucetta infrequens {{small|Row & Hôzawa, 1931}}

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|frame=yes|zoom=2|text=Holotype site (Diego Garcia)}}

Leucetta chagosensis is a species of calcareous sponge in the family Leucettidae, and was first described in 1913 by Arthur Dendy.{{WorldPoriferaDB|id=164750|name=Leucetta chagosensis Dendy, 1913|accessdate=2022-03-13}}{{cite journal|author=Dendy, A.|authorlink1=Arthur Dendy |date=1913|title= Report on the calcareous sponges collected by H.M.S. Sealark in the Indian Ocean in Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 5|journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series. Zoology |volume=16|pages= 1-29 pls 1-5 [10]|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25257177}} The species epithet, chagosensis, comes from the Latin with the ending -ensis indicating that the species comes from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The taxonomic decision for synonymy is based on Maurice Burton (1963).{{cite book|author=Burton, M.|date= 1963|title= A Revision of the Classification of the Calcareous Sponges|location= London|publisher= British Museum |pages=1-693 figs 1-375. [241]|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59210018}}