West Indies genera Columnitis, Tectitethya and Nucleotethya new genus with description of new species (Porifera, Tethyidae)

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 370-392

  Sarà, Michele ^a   Bavestrello, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

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