Hymetrochota Topsent, 1904

Ott, B., Mcdaniel, N. & Humphrey, E., 2024, Fourteen new species of demosponges (Porifera) from three coastal fjords in southern British Columbia, Canada, Zootaxa 5463 (2), pp. 151-200 : 168

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11622915
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scientific name	Hymetrochota Topsent, 1904
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Genus Hymetrochota Topsent, 1904 View in CoL

Hymetrochota species are encrusting with a hymedesmioid skeleton, smooth ectosomal tornotes and spined choanosomal styles with auxiliary acanthostyles echinating the substrate. Microscleres are birotulas (Van Soest 2002 [2004]b).