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Ophlitaspongia and Ophlitaspongia papilla reinstated, and a new species of Ophlitaspongia described (Porifera: Demospongiae: Microcionidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

C.M. Howson  and
S.J. Chambers
C.M. Howson
Affiliation:
‘Amisfield’, Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, EH35 5HS
S.J. Chambers
Affiliation:
National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, EHI IJF
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Abstract

A new species of Ophlitaspongia (Porifera: Microcionidae) from wave-exposed sublittoral rock in the north-east Atlantic is described and compared to the two other species recorded from the genus in the north-east Atlantic. The species known as Ophlitaspongia seriata is considered to be a junior synonym of Halichondria panicea. Consequently, the name O. papilla has been reinstated. The other recorded species O. basifixa, is from deep water. Ophlitaspongia basifixa has characters which differentiate it from Ophlitaspongia sp. nov. The genus Ophlitaspongia has been separated from related genera and reinstated for species in the North Atlantic.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , August 1999 , pp. 609 - 620
Copyright
© 1999 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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