Chalinidae Gray, 1867
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5012.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:56C6852D-AAE0-4B6B-AB57-919CD62DAEC1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5162280 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D3075148-FFD1-FFF1-FF67-8F5AB3C4C93F |
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Plazi |
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Chalinidae Gray, 1867 |
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Family Chalinidae Gray, 1867 View in CoL
Genus Chalinula Schmidt, 1868 View in CoL
Diagnosis. Thinly encrusting, cushion-shaped or irregularly digitate growth forms. Consistency spongy, elastic, or very soft and limp. Colour brown or purplish. Oxeas short, ranging from vestigial to cigar-shaped; a high variation in form and size may occur within the same species. Spongin usually abundant, with high variation within one species. No microscleres (from De Weerdt 2002).
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Chalinidae Gray, 1867
| Sim-Smith, Carina, Hickman, Cleveland & Kelly, Michelle 2021 |
Chalinula
| Schmidt 1868 |