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Myxilla tarifensis sp. nov. (Porifera, Poecilosclerida), with remarks on the genus Myxilla in the Strait of Gibraltar (Iberian Peninsula)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. L. Carballo  and
J. C. García-Gómez
J. L. Carballo
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Biologia Marina, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Sevilla, Ap. 1095, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
J. C. García-Gómez
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Biologia Marina, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Sevilla, Ap. 1095, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
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A new Myxillidae species from the Strait of Gibraltar, Myxilla tarifensis, is described. It is easily distinguished by a characteristic irregular isodictyal reticulation of acanthostyles which are smooth or slightly spined at the heads, as well as by strongyles as ectosomical megascleres, sometimes with very small and short spines at the ends. Moreover, the recent synonymization of the genera Dendoryx, Burtonanchora and Pseudomyxilla is accepted. A brief diagnosis is given of the Myxilla species found in the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , November 1996 , pp. 875 - 884
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1996

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