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Issue: Vol. 4379 No. 4: 16 Feb. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-02-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.4.7
Page range: 556–566
Abstract views: 242
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Halichondriidae Gray, 1867 from the Northeastern Brazil with description of a new species

Instituto de Formação de Educadores, Universidade Federal do Cariri, Rua Olegário Emídio de Araújo, s/n, CEP 63260-000, Brejo Santo, CE, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Nelson Chaves, s/n, Cidade Universitária CEP 50373-970, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Nelson Chaves, s/n, Cidade Universitária CEP 50373-970, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Porifera sponge Suberitida new species taxonomy biodiversity Brazil

Abstract

In this paper we report and describe material of Halichondriidae sampled at 11 different stations in the Brazilian northeastern coast. Halichondria (Halichondria) marianae sp. nov. is a massively encrusting sponge, with firm texture, soft, fleshy, but compact and compressible. Color in vivo is dark green, becoming grayish or brown after fixation in ethanol; the spicules are smooth oxeas. Amorphinopsis atlantica from the Northeastern Brazil is thickly encrusting to massively, also with firm texture, color in vivo is usually yellow to dark green and both distributed in different regions, brownish after fixation in ethanol; the spicules are smooth oxeas and styles. A taxonomic study of these samples is given, including description and illustrations.

 

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