Alloscleria, TOPSENT, 1927

Morrow, Christine, Cárdenas, Paco, Boury-Esnault, Nicole, Picton, Bernard, Mccormack, Grace, Soest, Rob Van, Collins, Allen, Redmond, Niamh, Maggs, Christine, Sigwart, Julia & Allcock, Louise A., 2019, Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187, pp. 31-81 : 67-68

GENUS ALLOSCLERIA TOPSENT, 1927

Type species: Alloscleria tenuispinosa Topsent, 1927 .

Included species: Alloscleria tenuispinosa Topsent, 1927 (p. 6)

Remarks: Topsent (1927) erected the genus Alloscleria for his new species Alloscleria tenuispinosa and Topsentia glabra ( Topsent, 1898) and allocated the genus to Spongosoritidae (= Halichondriidae ). He considered Alloscleria tenuispinosa most closely allied with Topsentia glabra . Hooper (2002b) synonymized Alloscleria with Halicnemia , primarily on the basis of the presence of acanthoxea. However, Erpenbeck & Van Soest (2002), in a discussion of Topsentia Berg, 1899 , subsequently resurrected Alloscleria , although they retained the genus in Desmoxyidae .