Clathria Schmidt, 1862

Samaai, Toufiek, Pillay, Ruwen & Janson, Liesl, 2019, Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa, Zootaxa 4587 (1), pp. 1-85 : 29

Genus Clathria Schmidt, 1862

Definition. Microcioninae with auxiliary styles in one or two categories forming various ectosomal structures ranging from membranous paratangential to a dense erect palisade of brushes; choanosomal skeleton wellstructured, hymedesmioid to reticulate, with mostly smooth styles enclosed within spongin fibres and fibres echinated by mostly acanthose smaller styles ( Hooper 2002).