Lamellomorpha Bergquist, 1968

Lamellomorpha Bergquist, 1968: 30.

Diagnosis (modified from Hooper & Maldonado 2002)

Massive, lamellate stalked-palmate, or paddle-shaped sponges, with a relatively smooth, granular, or fleshy, slightly conulose surface. Ectosomal skeleton a skin-like membrane packed with microstrongyles. Choanosomal skeletal architecture a core of megascleres, which are straight, curved, sinuous, or contort oxeas, frequently modified with one or both ends rounded as in strongyloxeas. These radiate through the stalk and fan. Straight oxeas arise as short subectosomal tracts that emerge oblique to the surface. Roughened microstrongyles or microxeas and streptasters (amphiasters, metasters, and spirasters) scattered throughout the body.

Type species

Lamellomorpha strongylata Bergquist, 1968 (by monotypy).