Neophrissospongia Pisera & Lévi, 2002

Manconi, Renata & Serusi, Annalisa, 2008, Rare sponges from marine caves: discovery of Neophrissospongia nana nov. sp. (Demospongiae, Corallistidae) from Sardinia with an annotated checklist of Mediterranean lithistids, ZooKeys 4 (4), pp. 71-87 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.4.39
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:93A5F62F-9A24-4F64-9BFB-C6347AAB45B1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792608
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/561887D8-FFA1-FFED-FF22-41EA003FE5D6
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Neophrissospongia Pisera & Lévi, 2002
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Genus Neophrissospongia Pisera & Lévi, 2002 View in CoL

Definition (emended from Pisera and Lévi, 2002)

Cup-shaped, ear-shaped, plate-shaped growth form. Ectosomal skeleton with radially arranged dichotriaenes with tubercled to less frequent smooth cladomes and from smooth to tubercled/spiny rhabdomes. Sub-ectosomal spicules as asterose microscleres (streptaster/amphiaster) and relatively large style-like monaxons. Choanosomal skeleton as a relatively loose network of dicranoclone desmas.