Genus Clathrina Gray, 1867 sensu Klautau et al. 2013

Remarks. The species of the former large genus Clathrina have been subdivided by Klautau et al. 2013 into distinct genera. The restricted genus Clathrina unites the species with asconoid tubuli anastomosed into loosely organized or more tightly anastomosed cormi with spiculation consisting exclusively of small triactines. We obtained a considerable number of partial 28SrRNA sequences to assist us in classifying the collected members of this still very large genus. We combined our sequences with our Indonesian, Oliver Voigt’s (2017), Sponge Barcode Project and GenBank Clathrina sequences in an analysis the results of which are given in the phylogenetic tree of Fig. 2A. See above for further comments on the results.