Genus Auletta Schmidt, 1870

Synonymy (see Alvarez & Hooper 2002).

Diagnosis. Tubular, erect on peduncle or narrow base. Surface smooth with choanosomal spicules projecting slightly; ectosome without specialised skeleton; choanosomal skeleton plumoreticulate, with longitudinal strongyle tracts, connected by single styles or plumose tracts of styles; masses of sinuous strongyles reinforcing inner tube wall; megascleres sinuous strongyles, always coring main spicule tracts and inner tube walls; styles and or oxeas, plumo-echinating and connecting main tracts; microscleres absent (Alvarez & Hooper 2002).