Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867

Samaai, Toufiek, Pillay, Ruwen & Janson, Liesl, 2019, Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa, Zootaxa 4587 (1), pp. 1-85 : 42

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scientific name	Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867
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Subgenus Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867 View in CoL

Definition. Mycale with surface visibly reticulate to the naked eye; choanosomal skeleton plumose or plumoreticulate made of multi-spicular tracts of megascleres of one category only; ectosomal skeleton a dense tangential reticulation of megascleres isolated or in tracts, megascleres are subtylostyles (mycalostyles); microscleres are palmate anisochelae in one to four size categories, the larger ones forming rosettes, sigmas, raphides, toxas and eventually micracanthoxeas.