Cinachyrella Wilson 1925
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
84KV7
Sollas 1886
Sollas
1886
[246,509,690,716]
Demospongiae
Tetillidae
Animalia
Tetractinellida
36
37
Porifera
family
Genus Cinachyrella Wilson 1925
Diagnosis.Globular sponges with hispid-bristly surface provided with numerous scattered, undifferentiated porocalices; oscules inconspicuous. Skeleton radiate, consisting of bundles of oxeas issuing from the centre and running spirally to the surface. No cortical specialisation. Megascleres protriaenes, anatriaenes, occasionally plagiotriaenes, and dominant large oxeas. Microscleres sigmaspires, which may be lacking occasionally, finely spined oxeas and/or raphides occur (from Van Soest & Rützler 2002).