Chalinula Schmidt, 1868
New shallow-water sponges (Porifera) from the Galápagos Islands
Sim-Smith, Carina
Hickman, Cleveland
Kelly, Michelle
Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-02
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Gray, 1867
Gray
1867
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Demospongiae
Chalinidae
Animalia
Haplosclerida
10
11
Porifera
family
Genus Chalinula Schmidt, 1868
Diagnosis.Thinly encrusting, cushion-shaped or irregularly digitate growth forms. Consistency spongy, elastic, or very soft and limp. Colour brown or purplish. Oxeas short, ranging from vestigial to cigar-shaped; a high variation in form and size may occur within the same species. Spongin usually abundant, with high variation within one species. No microscleres (from De Weerdt 2002).