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Global diversity of sponges (Porifera). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
With the completion of a single unified classification, the Systema Porifera (SP) and subsequent development of an online species database, the World Porifera Database (WPD), we are now equipped to provide a first comprehensive picture of the global ...
Jean Vacelet   +47 more
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Molecular phylogenetic evaluation of classification and scenarios of character evolution in calcareous sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Calcareous sponges (Phylum Porifera, Class Calcarea) are known to be taxonomically difficult. Previous molecular studies have revealed many discrepancies between classically recognized taxa and the observed relationships at the order, family and genus ...
Oliver Voigt (90080)   +11 more
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Host population genetics and biogeography structure the microbiome of the sponge Cliona delitrix

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2020
Sponges occur across diverse marine biomes and host internal microbial communities that can provide critical ecological functions. While strong patterns of host specificity have been observed consistently in sponge microbiomes, the precise ecological ...
Cole G. Easson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A remarkable new halichondrid demosponge, Ptilospongia hemisphaeroidalis, from the latest Ordovician Beigong Biota, South China [PDF]

open access: yesEstonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023
A new halichondrid demosponge bubarid Ptilospongia hemisphaeroidalis gen. et sp. nov. is described from the latest Ordovician Beigong Biota in Jingxian County, Anhui Province, South China.
Lixia Li, Joachim Reitner
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous demosponge spicules in a Late Devonian stromatoporoid basal skeleton from the Frasnian of Belgium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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Kershaw, S   +26 more
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GSL-Porifera

open access: yes, 2022
A mini-poster with examples of sponges that may be expected on biodiversity surveys in Gulf of St. Lawrence (GSL). Updated from a page of a series here: Nozères (2022) Mini-posters of macroinvertebrates in captures from bottom trawl surveys of the ...
Claude Nozeres (101073)
core   +1 more source

The coral-killing red sponge Clathria (Microciona) aceratoobtusa (Porifera: Demosponigiae) invades various coral communities of Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park, southeast India

open access: yesThe European Zoological Journal, 2020
Accounts of the encrusting, coral-killing sponges are increasing at an alarming rate. The present paper details about a thinly encrusting red sponge Clathria (Microciona) aceratoobtusa (Carter, 1887) which is invasive or locally spreading species and ...
A. M. Ashok   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential Biomedical Applications of Collagen Filaments derived from the Marine Demosponges Ircinia oros (Schmidt, 1864) and Sarcotragus foetidus (Schmidt, 1862)

open access: yesMarine Drugs, 2021
Collagen filaments derived from the two marine demosponges Ircinia oros and Sarcotragus foetidus were for the first time isolated, biochemically characterised and tested for their potential use in regenerative medicine.
Marina Pozzolini   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Sponges belonging to the genera Amphilectus Vosmaer, Esperiopsis Carter and Ulosa de Laubenfels of the family Esperiopsidae were collected during 1986 and 1988 expeditions of the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis (at that time the National ...
Soest, Rob W. M. van   +8 more
core   +1 more source

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