A carnivorous sponge, chondrocladia gigantea (porifera: demospongiae: cladorhizidae), the giant deep-sea clubsponge from the norwegian trench

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 44, Issue , 1999, Pages 289-298

  Kübler, Bettina ^a   Barthel, Dagmar ^a  

^a Chemin du Bonnier 9 ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaption; Aquiferous system; Carnivory; Choanocyte chambers; Cladorhizidae; D porifera; Deep sea; Food poor environment; Macrophagy

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; SPONGE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

NORWEGIAN SEA;

CHONDROCLADIA GIGANTEA; PORIFERA;

EID: 0342699454     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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