Raspailia Nardo, 1833

Lerner, Cléa, Carraro, João L. & Soest, Rob Van, 2006, Raspailia (Raspaxilla) bouryesnaultae, a new name for Brazilian Raspaxilla elegans Boury­Esnault, 1973 (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Raspailiidae) with a redescription and a new record, Zootaxa 1129, pp. 37-45 : 39

Raspailia Nardo, 1833

Definition. Raspailiidae with a more­or­less compressed axial skeleton and a radial, plumose or simply reticulate extra­axial skeleton, with choanossomal spicules consisting of 2–3 or more different size classes (styles and/or oxeas), and echinating acanthostyles microcionid­like or secondarily modified ( Hooper, 2002).