FIG. 2 in Description of a new lithistid sponge from northeastern New Zealand, and consideration of the phylogenetic affinities of families Corallistidae and Neopeltidae

FIG. 2. — Lithistid desma and triaene morphologies; A, smooth tetracrepid pseudodendroclone with branched terminii, in situ, Racodiscula sp, Caribbean; B, mammilate acrepid megaclones, note simple zygomes (z), in situ, undescribed species of Pleroma, New Zealand; C, sphaeroclones with several arms arising from one end of a globular spiky, hollow (hc) centrum (c), in situ, sphaerocladinid Vetulina stalactites Schmidt, Caribbean; D, dichotriaene with bifurcate clads, cladome simple and non-ornamented, rhabd long relative to cladome width, dicranocladinid Corallistes typus Schmidt, Caribbean; E, dichotriaenes with regular cladome but with surface ornamentation, rhabd long relative to cladome width, dicranocladinid Corallistes nolitangere Schmidt, Caribbean. Scale bars: A, 167 µm; B, 208 µm; C, 56 µm; D, 200 µm; E, 111 µm.