Vosmaeria Fristedt, 1885

Gerasimova, Elena, Erpenbeck, Dirk & Plotkin, Alexander, 2008, Vosmaeria Fristedt, 1885 (Porifera, Demospongiae, Halichondriidae): revision of species, phylogenetic reconstruction and evidence for split, Zootaxa 1694, pp. 1-37 : 5

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.180677
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6234163
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scientific name	Vosmaeria Fristedt, 1885
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Synonymy: Vosmaeria Fristedt, 1885: 24 .

Type species: Vosmaeria crustacea Fristedt, 1885 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis (here emended):

Thinly encrusting sponges. Surface smooth with thin papillae. Oscula on apices of the papillae, ostia perforate the papillae walls. Choanosomal skeleton composed by principal tracts of (sub)tylostyles running from the sponge base to the surface and forming the papillae skeleton. Free (sub)tylostyles and oxeas scattered in the choanosome between the principal tracts. Ectosomal skeleton dense and firm, constituted mainly by tangentially oriented intercrossing oxeas.