Sandes, J.; Pinheiro, U. (2016). New species of Clathria (Microciona) (Poecilosclerida: Microcionina: Microcionidae) from the Tropical South-western Atlantic Ocean (Sergipe State, north-eastern Brazil). In: Schönberg CHL, Fromont J, Hooper NA, Sorokin S, Zhang W, de Voogd N (eds) New Frontiers in Sponge Science. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 96, 251-261.
New species of <i>Clathria</i> (Microciona) (Poecilosclerida: Microcionina: Microcionidae) from the Tropical South-western Atlantic Ocean (Sergipe State, north-eastern Brazil). <i>In</i>: Schönberg CHL, Fromont J, Hooper NA, Sorokin S, Zhang W, de Voogd N (eds) New Frontiers in Sponge Science
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
96, 251-261
Publication
Proceedings of the 9th International Sponge Conference, 2013 Fremantle.
Clathria is one of the most species-rich genera among Demospongiae, but only nine species have been recorded so far from Brazil. Here we describe a new species of Clathria (Microciona) collected by trawling in waters of Sergipe State (north-eastern Brazil). The new species is differentiated from other encrusting Clathria with a hymedesmioid skeleton by the possession of a combination of long thin subectosomal subtylostyles, two category sizes of acanthostyles, both erect and echinating the basal spongin skeleton, long slightly curved choanosomal principal subtylostyles with tuberculate spine heads and wing-shaped toxas as microscleres.
South Atlantic
Western Atlantic warm temperate to tropical