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Issue: Vol. 639 No. 1: 13 Sept. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-09-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.639.1.1
Page range: 1–7
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 4

Biemna trisigmata sp. n., a new sponge from the North coast of Brazil (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida)

Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Cx. Postal 1188, 90001-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Cx. Postal 1188, 90001-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Porifera Biemna Desmacellidae Poecilosclerida Taxonomy Brazilian coast Amapá southwestern Atlantic

Abstract

A new species of Biemna Gray, 1867, B. trisigmata sp. n., is described from the northern Brazilian coast, Amap State. The new species is compared to other tropical West Atlantic species of Biemna, from which it differs in having three categories of sigmas and two categories of microxeas.

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