Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa
Author
Samaai, Toufiek
Author
Pillay, Ruwen
Author
Janson, Liesl
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4587
1
1
85
journal article
26978
10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1
30b2e4dc-5996-46b6-8be8-7bccdd041563
1175-5326
2651448
CC6CDA5A-E283-49AD-9F31-CE95C123A379
Subgenus
Mycale (Aegogropila)
Gray, 1867
Definition.
Mycale
with surface visibly reticulate to the naked eye; choanosomal skeleton plumose or
plumoreticulate made of multi-spicular tracts of megascleres of one category only; ectosomal skeleton a dense tangential reticulation of megascleres isolated or in tracts, megascleres are subtylostyles (mycalostyles); microscleres are palmate anisochelae in one to four size categories, the larger ones forming rosettes, sigmas, raphides, toxas and eventually micracanthoxeas.