A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species
Author
Cárdenas, Paco
Author
Rapp, Hans Tore
text
Zootaxa
2012
3253
1
52
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.280590
35f6ecad-68d3-44cb-9183-d1c9617c2c57
1175-5326
280590
Family
Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875
Diagnosis:
Astrophorida
with a majority of amphiasters as streptasters (never spirasters) in combination with large calthrops and/or short-shafted mesotriaenes or mesotrider desmas. A variety of monaxonic spicules can be present: microxeas, microrhabds, microstrongyles and microrhabdose streptasters (
Cárdenas
et al.
2011
).
Genera:
Brachiaster
,
Nethea
,
Pachastrella
,
Triptolemma
.