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.