Jeon, Y.J.; Sim, C.J. (2008). A new species of the genus Biemna (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Desmacellidae) from Korea. Animal Cells and Systems. 12: 241-243.

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Jeon, Y.J.; Sim, C.J.

2008

12: 241-243

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A new species of the genus Biemna (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Desmacellidae), Biemna hongdoensis n. sp. was collected from Hongdo Island, Korea by SCUBA diving in 2004. B. hongdoensis n. sp. is closely related to B. megalosigma Hentshel, 1912 in their spicules, but the styles and sigmas of new species are larger than B. megalosigma’s and microxeas and raphides of new species are smaller than B. megalosigma's. Also, new species has not spheres. The stubby conulose are distributed throughout the surface of new species.

Eastern Pacific warm temperate to tropical

Systematics, Taxonomy

Porifera

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