HEMIASTERELLIDAE LENDENFELD, 1889

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 : 75

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scientific name	HEMIASTERELLIDAE LENDENFELD, 1889
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FAMILY HEMIASTERELLIDAE LENDENFELD, 1889 View in CoL

Diagnosis (emended from Hooper, 2002b): Encrusting, cup-shaped, arborescent or branching growth forms; megascleres styles, oxea or both enclosed within axially compressed spongin fibres or basally compressed in encrusting taxa, and plumose to plumo-reticulate extra-axial branches or sometimes with a definite axis. Microscleres are euasters, usually with microspination.

Type genus: Hemiasterella Carter, 1879 .

Included genera: In WPD, Van Soest et al. (2018) listed four genera: Adreus Gray, 1867 ; Axos Gray, 1867 ; Hemiasterella Carter, 1879 ; and Leptosastra Topsent, 1904 .