Raspailia Nardo, 1833

Ekins, Merrick, Debitus, Cécile, Erpenbeck, Dirk & Hooper, John N. A., 2018, A new species of the sponge Raspailia (Raspaxilla) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific, Zootaxa 4410 (2), pp. 379-386 : 380

Genus Raspailia Nardo, 1833

Raspailiidae with a more-or-less compressed axial skeleton and a radial, plumose or simply reticulate extra-axial skeleton, with choanosomal spicules consisting of two, three or more different size classes (styles and/or oxeas), and echinating acanthostyles microcionid-like or secondarily modified (from Hooper et al. 2008).