Haliclona (Gellius) Gray, 1867

Definition. Chalinidae with a choanosomal skeleton consisting of a rather confused, subhalichondroid reticulation of pauci- to multispicular primary lines, irregularly connected by unispicular secondary lines. Ectosomal skeleton, if present, either a regular, tangential, unispicular, isotropic reticulation, or consisting of irregularly strewn, tangentially orientated spicules (de Weerdt 2002).