Oscarella Vosmaer, 1884

Perez, Thierry & Ruiz, Cesar, 2018, Description of the first Caribbean Oscarellidae (Porifera: Homoscleromorpha), Zootaxa 4369 (4), pp. 501-514 : 504

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scientific name	Oscarella Vosmaer, 1884
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Genus Oscarella Vosmaer, 1884

Type species: Halisarca lobularis Schmidt, 1862 (by monotypy). ( Oscaria ) Vosmaer, 1881: 163 (preocc. by Oscaria Gray, 1873 —Reptilia); Oscarella Vosmaer, 1884 : pl. 8 (explanation); 1887: 326 (nom. nov. for Oscaria Vosmaer ). Octavella Tuzet and Paris, 1963: 88 .

Diagnosis: Homoscleromorphorida without skeleton, with a variable development of the ectosome. The aquiferous system has a sylleibid-like organization, with spherical to ovoid eurypylous or diplodal choanocyte chambers arranged around large exhalant canals ( Muricy & Diaz 2002).