Pachastrellidae Carter 1875

Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875 Diagnosis: Astrophorida with a majority of amphiasters as streptasters (never spirasters) in combination with large calthrops and/or short-shafted mesotriaenes or mesotrider desmas. A variety of monaxonic spicules can be present: microxeas, microrhabds, microstrongyles and microrhabdose streptasters (Cárdenas et al. 2011). Genera: Brachiaster, Nethea, Pachastrella, Triptolemma.Published as part of Cárdenas, Paco & Rapp, Hans Tore, 2012, A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species, pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 3253 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.28059