Publication Date:
2014-11-07
Description:
A new species of a very thinly encrusting Desmacella (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Desmacellidae) is described from Queen Charlotte Basin and Georgia Basin, off the Canadian Pacific coast. It is compared with all known species of the genus, differing in the geometry and size of spicules, and the persistent epizoic growth.
Keywords:
Porifera
;
Desmacellidae
;
taxonomy
;
new species
;
sponge reefs
;
Pacific
;
Canada
;
42.72
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
Article / Letter to the editor
Format:
application/pdf
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