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Issue: Vol. 443 No. 1: 25 Feb. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.443.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 5

Timea bioxyasterina sp.n., a new species from the Northeastern coast of Brazil (Demospongiae, Hadromerida)

Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Cx. Postal 1188, 90001-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Museu Nacional, Departamento de Invertebrados, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Cx. Postal 1188, 90001-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Porifera Taxonomy Hadromerida northeastern Atlantic Timea bioxyasterina sp. nov.

Abstract

A new Brazilian species of Timea is described from 01 51 00 S-43 48 00 W (35.5 m depth). Timea bioxyasterina sp. nov. is set apart from other tropical Western Atlantic species by the possession of tylasters and two categories of oxyasters.

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