New shallow-water sponges (Porifera) from the Galápagos Islands Author Sim-Smith, Carina Author Hickman, Cleveland 0000-0002-2914-4687 hickman.c@rockbridge.net Author Kelly, Michelle 0000-0001-9673-0056 elly@niwa.co.nz text Zootaxa 2021 2021-08-02 5012 1 1 71 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5012.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5012.1.1 1175-5326 5158062 56C6852D-AAE0-4B6B-AB57-919CD62DAEC1 Family Tetillidae Sollas 1886 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 ).