Chalinula Schmidt, 1868 New shallow-water sponges (Porifera) from the Galápagos Islands Sim-Smith, Carina Hickman, Cleveland Kelly, Michelle Zootaxa 2021 2021-08-02 5012 1 1 71 84K24 Gray, 1867 Gray 1867 [247,528,295,321] 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).