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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of halichondrine sponges having the skeleton typically non-reticulate, with the skeleton-fibers plumose, megascleres chiefly styli, and microscleres, if present, never chelate. It contains Axinella, Auletta, Halicnemia, and other genera.

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