Ridley and Dendy, 1886
Definition: Encrusting, massive, lobate, ramose or cup-shaped Myxillina; microscleres absent except for unique characteristic onychaetes (microspined anisoraphides); skeletal architecture variously isotropic, anisotropic or plumose bundles of smooth styles, which may occasionally have a few spines, or may occasionally be replaced by oxeas or strongyles; ectosomal megascleres tornotes of various shape (tylotes, strongyles, oxeotes), which may or may not bear terminal spines at one or both ends. (Tedania ignis) (Tedania suctoria spics)
Remarks: 3 valid genera, Tedania (with three subgenera), Tedanione and Hemitedania .
Source: Desqueyroux-Faúndez and Van Soest, 1996.
Genus represented in the area:
Tedania Gray, 1867 (type species Reniera digitata Schmidt, 1862): morphologically distinct ectosomal and choanosomal megascleres; ectosomal tylotes with microspined heads and smooth choanosomal styles (subgenus Tedania ).
Species included:
Tedania anhelans
Tedania suctoria