NEOPELTIDAE Sollas, 1888

Schlacher-Hoenlinger, Monika A., Pisera, Andrzej & Hooper, John N. A., 2005, Deep-sea “ lithistid ” assemblages from the Norfolk Ridge (New Caledonia), with description of seven new species and a new genus (Porifera, Demospongiae), Zoosystema 27 (4), pp. 649-698 : 686

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scientific name	NEOPELTIDAE Sollas, 1888
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Family NEOPELTIDAE Sollas, 1888

DEFINITION. — Polymorphic lithistids with monocrepid desmas of complex morphology (often resembling tetraclones) and monaxial ectosomal pseudophyllotriaenes and/or pseudodiscotriaenes; microscleres are amphiasters and/or spinose oxeas (Pisera F Lévi 2002e).

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Porifera
Class	Demospongiae
Order	Tetractinellida
Family	Neopeltidae

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NEOPELTIDAE Sollas, 1888

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