Jabeen, H.; Shafique, S.; Burhan, Z.-u.-N.; Siddiqui, P.J.A. (2018). Marine Sponge (Porifera: Demospongiae) Liosina paradoxa Thiele, 1899 from Sandspit backwater mangroves at Karachi coast, Pakistan. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences. 47(6): 1296-1299.

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Jabeen, H.; Shafique, S.; Burhan, Z.-u.-N.; Siddiqui, P.J.A.

2018

47(6): 1296-1299

Publication

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/44471/1/IJMS%2047%286%29%201296-1299.pdf

IJMS 47(6) 1296-1299.pdf 

Marine sponge Liosina paradoxa was recently collected from pneumatophore of Avicennia marina at Sandspit backwater (66°54'25" E, 24°49'20" N), Karachi coast in May 2015. Identification of specimen was based on the structure of siliceous spicules scattered irregularly in mesohyl observed under light microscope and scanning electron microscope. Spicules are megascleres, entirely smooth, strongyle (length = 310-451 ± 59.65 µm, width = 5-8 ± 1.8 µm), microscleres absent. The result has been shown that the species is Liosina paradoxa (Family Dictyonellidae) first time reported from coastal area of Pakistan.

Northern Indian Ocean

Systematics, Taxonomy

Porifera

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