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A new species of Phorbas (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2007

Pilar Ríos  and
Javier Cristobo
Pilar Ríos
Affiliation:
Departamento de Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Javier Cristobo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón, C/ Príncipe de Asturias 70 bis, 33212 Gijón, Asturias, Spain
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Abstract

Phorbas is a common genus with cosmopolitan distribution. A new species of sponge, Phorbas megasigma sp. nov. (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Hymedesmiidae) is described from material collected during the third Spanish expedition on the study of the Antarctic benthos, ‘Bentart 03’. Phorbas megasigma is closely related to P. nexus but differs in the possession of arcuate chelae and very big sigmata as microscleres.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 87 , Issue 6 , December 2007 , pp. 1485 - 1490
Copyright
2007 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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