Subgenus Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867

Definition. Mycale with surface visibly reticulate to the naked eye; choanosomal skeleton plumose or plumoreticulate made of multi-spicular tracts of megascleres of one category only; ectosomal skeleton a dense tangential reticulation of megascleres isolated or in tracts, megascleres are subtylostyles (mycalostyles); microscleres are palmate anisochelae in one to four size categories, the larger ones forming rosettes, sigmas, raphides, toxas and eventually micracanthoxeas.