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Coelosphaeridae Dendy (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida), originally intended to receive all Poecilosclerida with fistules, parchment-like surface membrane and hollow bladder-like shape, is here rearranged to unite Myxillina possessing arcuate chelae, ectosomal smooth tornotes and if present a reticulate choanosomal skeleton. Fistular shape is considered only significant at the genus level. Genera and species with fistular shape but possessing birotulas palmate chelae and/or toxas previously assigned to Coelosphaeridae are here excluded from the family and reassigned to Iotrochotidae (genus Amphiasterella), Microcionina (fistular Acamidae) and Mycalina (isodictyid genus Coelocarteria). In the newly revised family seven genera are considered valid, but several are further subdivided into convenient subgenera.
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Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. In: Hooper, J.N.A., Van Soest, R.W.M., Willenz, P. (eds) Systema Porifera. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_57
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