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Taxonomic revision of Suberitidae from California

Added on: 2024-05-03 17:11:51 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole
Turner, T.L.; Rouse, G.W.; Weigel, B.L.; Janusson, C.; Lemay, M.A.; Thacker, R.W. (2024). Taxonomy and phylogeny of the family Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in California. Zootaxa. 5447(1): 1-28. ...

Biemna begonae, a new species from South European Atlantic Shelf

Added on: 2024-04-30 10:16:02 by Ríos, Pilar
Cristobo, J.; Almón, B.; Pérez, J.; Ríos, P. (2024). A new species of the genus Biemna Gray, 1867 (Porifera: Biemnidae) from shallow waters of the Northwestern Iberian coasts. Zootaxa. 5446(1): 121-132., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5446.1.7 ...

Invasive freshwater sponge in Europa

Added on: 2024-04-28 16:14:54 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole
Carballo, J.L.; Cruz-Barraza, J.A.; Domínguez-Monge, C.; Cano, C.; López-González, P.J. (2024). First report of the invasive freshwater sponge Heterorotula multidentata (Weltner, 1895) in Europa: a latent threat for aquatic ecosystems?. Limnology. ...

Haplosclerida from Northern Arabian Sea

Added on: 2024-04-28 13:40:29 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole
Shafique, S.; Burhan, Z.; Jabeen, H.; Rasheed, M.; Ali, A.; Siddiqui, P.J.A. (2023). Re-description of two marine sponge species (Demospongiae: Haplosclerida) from the coast of Karachi, Pakistan, Northern Arabian Sea. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences. 52(07): 347-353. ...

First record of Axinella venusta in the western Mediterranean

Added on: 2024-04-23 10:30:35 by Cárdenas, Paco
Díaz, J.A.; Ordines, F.; Massutí, E. (2024) First record of the recently described Axinella venusta Idan, Shefer, Feldstein & Ilan, 2021 (Demospongiae: Axinellidae) in the western Mediterranean. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, (65) 87 - 91. ...

Sponges from Rondinella cave (Southern Adriatic Sea)

Added on: 2024-04-23 09:00:12 by Cárdenas, Paco
Schiavo, A.; Oddenino, M.; Giménez, G.; Longo, C. (2024). First Survey of the Sponge Community of a Semi-Submerged Marine Cave along the Adriatic Apulian Coast. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. ...

Caribbean Agelas morphospecies analyzed using multiple datasets

Added on: 2024-04-19 12:02:30 by van Soest, Rob W.M.
Pankey, M.S.; Gochfeld, D.J.; Gastaldi, M.; Macartney, K.J.; Clayshulte Abraham, A.; Slattery, M.; Lesser, M.P. (2024) Phylosymbiosis and metabolomics resolve phenotypically plastic and cryptic sponge species in the genus Agelas across the Caribbean basin. Molecular Ecology 33(8), 2024; 00:e17321 ...

Cave sponge communities on the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil

Added on: 2024-04-17 07:00:52 by Cárdenas, Paco
Muricy, G.; Lage, A.; Sandes, J.; Klautau, M.; Pinheiro, U.; Laport, M.S.; de Oliveira, B.F.R.; Pequeno, C.B.; Lopes, M.V. (2024) Sponge Communities of Submarine Caves and Tunnels on the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Northeast Brazil. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12, 657. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12040657 ...

Three new carnivorous sponges from the Southern Ocean

Added on: 2024-04-01 15:32:05 by Cárdenas, Paco
Eck, C.; Kröner, X.; Janussen, D. (2024) Taxonomic Investigations on Cladorhizidae (Carnivorous Sponges) of the East Scotia Ridge (Antarctica) with the Description of Three New Species. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12, 612. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12040612 ...

Cryptic speciation in sympatric colour morphotypes of Mycale cecilia

Added on: 2024-03-17 16:26:53 by Boury-Esnault, Nicole
Castillo-Páez, A.; Llera-Herrera, R.; Cruz-Barraza, J.A. (2024). Morphological and molecular evidence of cryptic speciation in sympatric colour morphotypes of Mycale (Carmia) cecilia (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from the Mexican Pacific. Scientia Marina. 88(1): e082. ...

Porifera editors participated in the very first online organised WoRMS-LifeWatch editor workshop

Added on: 2021-08-04 18:12:19 by Vandepitte, Leen
In the week of June 7th 2021, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) – host of Aphia, the online platform behind WoRMS and its many sub-registered – organized the very first online editor workshop, in which 13 Porifera-editors enthusiastically participated. ...

Welcome to Porifera news

Added on: 2010-11-12 11:07:10 by van Soest, Rob
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