Ophlitaspongiinae Laubenfels 1936

Description: English: a photograph of a tree sponge, Echinoclathria dichotoma, taken in False Bay, Cape Town in 24m of water using a Fuji SP5. Date: July 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Seascapeza.

Description: English: Sponge at Duiker Point Canyon dive site off the Cape Peninsula,South Africa. Date: 13 April 2013, 09:50:49. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

SEM images of the spicules of ZMA Por.18604) from the Gulf of Cadiz, off the Moroccan coast.

From holotype ZMA Por. 04881.

A-B. habit, B-D. skeleton. From Van Soest et al. 2013.

SEM images of spicules of ZMA Por. 06654 from Mauritania. From Van Soest et al. 2013.

A. habit, B, cross section of branch, C-I. SEM images of spicules. From Van Soest et al. 2013.

A. habit, B-C. skeleton, D-G. SEM images of spicules. From Van Soest et al. 2013.

ZMA Por. 09963 from Mauritania. A. habit, B. skeleton, C-H. SEM images of spicules. From Van Soest et al. 2013)

A. habit encrusting barnacles, B. skeleton, C-F. SEM images of spicules. From Van Soest et al. 2013.

A. habit, B-E. SEM images of spicules. From Van Soest et al. 2013.