Biodiversity, species composition and distribution of marine sponges in northeast Australia

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 263-274

  Hooper, John N A ^a   Kennedy, John A ^a   List Armitage, Susan E ^a   Cook, Stephen D ^a   Quinn, Ron ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Coral Sea; Endemism; Fauna survey; Great Barrier Reef; Ne Australia; Porifera; Species distribution patterns

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENDEMISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPONGE;

AUSTRALIA;

PORIFERA;

EID: 0033504759     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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