A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3253, 2012, Pages 1-52

  Cérdenas, Paco ^a,b,d   Rapp, Hans Tore ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c Uni Environment   (Norway)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Characella; Cosmopolitanism; DNA barcodes; Norway; Pachastrella; Pachastrellidae; Poecillastra; Taxonomy; Thenea; Vulcanella

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHORIDA; DEMOSPONGIAE; LITHISTIDA; PACHASTRELLA; PACHASTRELLA ABYSSI; PACHASTRELLA MONILIFERA; PACHASTRELLIDAE; POECILLASTRA; POECILLASTRA COMPRESSA; PORIFERA; THENEA; THENEA ABYSSORUM; THENEA MURICATA; THENEA VALDIVIAE; TUBEROSA; VULCANELLA;

EID: 84859224437     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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