Mycale (Naviculina) Gray, 1867

Mácola, Rosa, Nascimento, Elielton, Pinheiro, Ulisses, Neves, Elizabeth & Johnsson, Rodrigo, 2025, Four new species of Mycale (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from the Southwest Atlantic, Zootaxa 5627 (3), pp. 401-430 : 410

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scientific name	Mycale (Naviculina) Gray, 1867
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Subgenus Mycale (Naviculina) Gray, 1867 View in CoL

Type taxon: Naviculina cliftoni Gray, 1867 represented as Mycale (Naviculina) cliftoni ( Gray, 1867)

Diagnosis. Mycale with an ectosomal skeleton composed of a reticulation of megasclere bundles. Anisochelae include naviculichelae (complete or near fusion of both frontal alae, falx markedly expanded along the shaft, lateral alae of the head project backward and upward). Megacleres include mycalostyles and an additional category of oxeas may be present (emended from Hajdu, 1999 changes are in bold).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Porifera
Class	Demospongiae
SubClass	Heteroscleromorpha
Order	Poecilosclerida
Family	Mycalidae
Genus	Mycale

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