Redescription and resurrection of Pachymatisma normani (Demospongiae: Geodiidae), with remarks on the genus Pachymatisma

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1511-1525

  Cárdenas, Paco ^a   Xavier, Joana ^b   Tendal, Ole Secher ^c   Schander, Christoffer ^a,d   Rapp, Hans Tore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT TYPE; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; SPICULE; SPONGE; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); BERGEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; HORDALAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

ASTROPHORIDA; DEMOSPONGIAE; GEODIIDAE; JOHNSTONIA; PACHYMATISMA;

EID: 36749033725     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407058286     Document Type: Article

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