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Issue: Vol. 3838 No. 4: 21 Jul. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-07-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.4.4
Page range: 445–461
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 3

Dictyoceratida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Tropical Southwestern Atlantic (Northeastern Brazil, Sergipe State) and the description of three new species

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia – Laboratório de Porifera – LABPOR, Avenida Prof. Moraes Rêgo, 1235, Cidade Universitária, CEP 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brasil.
Dictyoceratida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Tropical Southwestern Atlantic (Northeastern Brazil, Sergipe State) and the description of three new species
Porifera taxonomy Sponges Ircinia Smenospongia Tropical Southwestern Atlantic Ocean Northeastern Brazil new species

Abstract

Five species of dictyoceratid sponges were collected from trawling on the continental shelf of Sergipe State, Northeastern Brazil, of which three are new to science: Ircinia sergipana sp. nov., Ircinia repens sp. nov., Ircinia strobilina, Hyattella cavernosa and Smenospongia ramosa sp. nov., the latter the first record of the genus Smenospongia from Brazil.