Desmacella Schmidt, 1870 from Brazil: Description of two new species and a review of records (Desmacellida: Demospongiae: Porifera)
Author
Cavalcanti, Thaynã
Author
Santos, George Garcia
Author
Pinheiro, Ulisses
text
Zootaxa
2015
4034
2
364
374
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.8
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1175-5326
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Genus
Desmacella
Schmidt, 1870
Synonymy (
see Hajdu & van
Soest 2002
).
Definition.
Desmacellidae
with tylostyles, occasionally styles, with reticulate, plumo-reticulate and vaguely halichondrioid choanosomal skeleton, microscleres sigmas, and raphides; the latter may be absent (Hajdu & van
Soest 2002
).