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New Dercitus (Stoeba) from the tropical western Atlantic

Added on 2015-01-21 15:25:33 by Cardenas, Paco
Santos, G. G. & Pinheiro, U. 2015. A new species of Dercitus (Stoeba) from the Atlantic Ocean (Porifera: Demospongiae: Astrophorida). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, FirstView, 1-6.
Dercitus (Stoeba) pseudodiscorhabda sp. nov. is described from the tropical western Atlantic. It is the only Dercitus (Stoeba) with four-rayed calthrops and discorhabds-like sanidasters. This is the 16th species of the genus to be recognized worldwide, the sixth from the Atlantic. The new species is compared with all its congeners worldwide.

Link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9528574&fileId=S0025315414002100



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