Rossellid glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from New Zealand waters, with description of one new genus and six new species Author Reiswig, Henry M. Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Author Dohrmann, Martin Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany m.dohrmann@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Author Kelly, Michelle Coasts and Oceans National Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Auckland, New Zealand Author Mills, Sadie NIWA Invertebrate Collection, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand Author Schupp, Peter J. ICBM Terramare, University of Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Germany & Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany Author Woerheide, Gert https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6380-7421 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany & SNSB - Bayerische Staatssammlung fuer Palaeontologie und Geologie, Muenchen, Germany & GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Muenchen, Germany text ZooKeys 2021 2021-09-17 1060 33 84 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1060.63307 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1060.63307 1313-2970-1060-33 9CF1AD759AD34890A7B359BEDA505C0D 60F647D3A76F5244AB88271A5808D0BF Scyphidium Schulze, 1900 Diagnosis. Body is saccular, basiphytous, sometimes rhizophytous. Choanosomal skeleton is composed of diactins. Hypodermal spicules, if present, are pentactins. Prostalia , if present, are hypodermal pentactins and/or diactins. Dermalia are stauractins and/or pentactins in various combinations. Atrialia are mainly hexactins. Microscleres are discohexasters and oxyhexasters often with hemioxyhexasters and oxyhexactins; with two or three types of discohexasters, none as calycocomes. Among the larger is a spherical form with a restricted number of secondary rays (emended from Tabachnick 2002 ). Remarks. The genus diagnosis is emended of necessity, to accept S. australiense Tabachnick, Janussen & Menschenina, 2008 and S. variospinosum sp. nov., described below. Type species. Scyphidium septentrionale Schulze, 1900.