Raspaxilla Topsent, 1913

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

Subgenus Raspaxilla Topsent, 1913

Definition. Raspailia with echinating acanthose rhabdostyles geometrically very different from the usually longer choanosomal styles (the latter without any basal rhabd); extraaxial styles forming a radial skeleton perpendicular to the axis; and well differentiated axial and extra­axial skeletons (the former compressed, the latter plumo­reticulate and/or radial) ( Hooper, 2002).