A large encrusting clionaid sponge in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-246

  Vacelet, Jean ^a   Bitar, Ghazi ^b   Dailianis, Thanos ^c,d   Zibrowius, Helmut ^a   Perez, Thierry ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cliona parenzani; Clionaidae; Eastern Mediterranean; Porifera

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MORPHOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPONGE; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ASIA; CRETE; CYPRUS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IONIAN SEA; LEBANON; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN BASIN;

ANTHOZOA; CLIONA PARENZANI; CLIONAIDAE; PORIFERA;

EID: 45249117304     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2007.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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