Polymastiidae Gray 1867

Description: English: Teat sponge at Lorry Bay south of Gordon's Bay in False Bay. Date: 1 November 2008, 13:58:30. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Teat sponge at Lorry Bay south of Gordon's Bay on the east side of False Bay. Date: 9 November 2008, 14:11:07. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Teat sponge at Partridge Point in the Castle Rocks Marine Reserve. Date: 19 July 2008, 13:01:55. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Oude Schip, Cape Peninsula. Date: 2005. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: Polymastia invaginataEnglish: Sponge. Date: 2008. Source: Own work. Author: Zureks.

Description: English: Teat sponge at Bakoven Rock. Date: 9 February 2005, 12:05:34. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Sponges at the ammunition barge, Simon's Town. Date: 2009. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Teat sponge at Rocky Bay, at the Steenbras River Mouth, on the east side of False Bay. Date: 2 November 2008, 11:13:58. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Teat sponge at Castle Rocks on the Cape Peninsula. Date: 26 July 2008, 15:22:01. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: Español: Esponja Polymastia pacifica en Carmel, California. Date: 5 May 2006, 09:05:42. Source: http://www.sanctuarysimon.org/photos/photo_info.php?photoID=3115&search=inverts&s=800&page=41. Author: Chad King / NOAA MBNMS.

Description: English: Teat sponge at Pinnacle, south of Gordon's Bay on the east side of False Bay. Date: 2 November 2008, 12:15:44. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Teat sponge with common feather stars at Maidstone Reef, Simon's Town. Date: 23 June 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Description: English: Gordon's Bay, Western Cape. Date: 2005. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood.

Lateral. Catalog no.: 138253. Specimen ID: 13468497. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 1.499.

Lateral. Catalog no.: 138283. Specimen ID: 13350296. Field no.: U-12476. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 0.667.

Top. Catalog no.: 138304. Specimen ID: 13350314. Field no.: U-12433. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 0.667.

Top. Catalog no.: 138307. Specimen ID: 13350317. Field no.: U-12444. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 0.667.

Top. Catalog no.: 138319. Specimen ID: 13350327. Field no.: U-12482. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 1.499.

Top. Catalog no.: 138320. Specimen ID: 13350328. Field no.: U-12483. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 0.667.

Lateral. Catalog no.: 138321. Specimen ID: 13350329. Field no.: U-12465. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 0.667.

Top. Catalog no.: 138346. Specimen ID: 13350346. Field no.: U-12422. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 0.667.

Collection Cabioch, collected in Roscoff redescription in Boury-Esnault, 1987 page 36-38

The ectosomal spicules of the cortex are fan-shaped

Lectotype RMNH Por. 12422 (from Van Soest & Plotkin, 2012)