Stelletta Schmidt, 1862

Esteves, Eduardo L. & Muricy, Guilherme, 2005, A new species of Stelletta (Demospongiae, Astrophorida) without microscleres from Abrolhos Archipelago, northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 1006 (1), pp. 43-52 : 45

Genus Stelletta Schmidt, 1862

Diagnosis. Massive sponges with a more­or­less collagenous rich cortex; triaenes often abundant, more rarely absent, oxeas and from one to three types of euasters, one of them confined to the choanosome, the other(s) sparse through the sponge. Occasional accessory ortho­ or trichodragmata. Microscleres may be lacking altogether (emended from Uriz, 2002a).

Type species. Stelletta grubei Schmidt, 1862 .