Raspaxilla Topsent 1913

Subgenus Raspaxilla Topsent, 1913 Synonymy: Raspaxilla Topsent, 1913: 616 (Type species: Raspaxilla phakellina Topsent, 1913: 617, by monotypy). Echinaxia Hallmann, 1916a: 543; 1917: 391 (Type species: Axinella frondula Whitelegge, 1907: 509, by original designation). Axinectya Hallmann, 1917: 393 (Type species: Axinella mariana Ridley & Dendy, 1886: 480, by original designation). Definition. Raspailia with echinating rhabdostyles geometrically very different from the usually longer choanosomal styles (the latter without any basal rhabd); extra-axial styles forming a radial skeleton perpendicular to the axis; and well differentiated axial and extra-axial skeletons (the former compressed, the latter plumoreticulate and/or radial) (from Hooper et al. 2008).
Published as part of Ekins, Merrick, Debitus, C��cile, 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, pp. 379-386 in Zootaxa 4410 (2) on page 380, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1221670
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