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A new species of Coelocarteria (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2007

Francesca Azzini
Affiliation:
DIP.TE.RIS., Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy
Barbara Calcinai
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Maurizio Pansini
Affiliation:
DIP.TE.RIS., Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy

Abstract

A new sponge species Coelocarteria agglomerans sp. nov. (Isodictyidae: Mycalina: Poecilosclerida) is described from the reef slopes of Bunaken National Marine Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The new species can be separated from the other two congeneric species: C. singaporensis and C. spatulosa by several characters concerning sponge surface, fistule shape, form and size of the spicules and habitat. In detail it differs from C. singaporensis in the presence of strongyles instead of oxeas as main megascleres and of spines in the shaft of palmate isochelae. It differs from C. spatulosa in the absence of characteristic fistules with spatula shaped hoods and in spicule size, because both categories of strongyles and palmate isochelae are remarkably larger in the latter.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2007 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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