Too many quiescent late-type galaxies or a matter of misclassification?

In the local Universe, the terms late-type and early-type are used to describe, respectively, disc galaxies with spiral arms and more bulge-dominated systems lacking spiral structure.

In the local Universe, the terms late-type and early-type are used to describe, respectively, disc galaxies with spiral arms and more bulge-dominated systems lacking spiral structure. These morphologies are often associated with different star formation levels, motivating the…