Aplysilla Schultze, 1878

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 : 74

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/224C879C-2B3E-FFBC-FF08-8C30FDE767D6

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scientific name

Aplysilla Schultze, 1878
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Genus Aplysilla Schultze, 1878 View in CoL

Definition. Darwinellidae in which the sponge body is always encrusting and the skeleton is composed only of fibres, which are clear of detritus and typically, unbranched ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ). In some species, for example A. polyraphis de Laubenfels , branching is frequent.

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