New species of Desmanthus (Porifera, Demospongiae) with a discussion of its ordinal relationships Author Van Soest, Rob W. M. Institute for Systematics and Ecology, University of Amsterdam, P. O. Box 94766, 1090 GT, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) soest @ bio. uva. nl soest@bio.uva.nl Author Hajdu, Eduardo Nacional, Depto. de Invertebrados, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, s / n 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo São Sebastião (Brazil) hajdu @ acd. ufrj. br hajdu@acd.ufrj.br text Zoosystema 2000 2000-12-31 22 2 299 312 journal article 308209 10.5281/zenodo.5401987 138d2fa4-e707-4da6-8384-542e9051bbc8 1638-9387 5401987

TABLE 2. — Spicule dimensions (µm) reported for all Desmanthidae species.

	Desmas I cladome	Desmas II cladome	Desmas II rhabdome	Styles
* Possibly a complex of several closely similar species.
Desmanthus incrustans *	100-240	70-400 × 15-30	20-30 × 10-30	180-1100 × 3.5-30
Desmanthus macphersoni	not present?	330-490	120-170 × 35-45	440-2750 × 28-60
Desmanthus meandroides n. sp.	155-291 × 5-6	155-267 × 8-17	49-204 × 10-30	126-834 × 8-10
Desmanthus levii n. sp.	90-112 × 5-10	94-136 × 12-20	47-141 × 15-23	131-460 × 4-12
Desmanthus rhabdophorus 150-160 × 15		104-192	184-256 × 25-30	264-640 × 7-16
Desmanthus topsenti	240-270 × 19-25	200-310 × 30-45	not recognizable	224-1000 × 14-31
Lithobubaris leviorum n. sp. 200-300 × 15-35		not present	not present	up to 1500 × 48-63
Lithobubaris tenens	150-200 × 20-35	not present	not present	1250-3000 × 45-60