MBAI - The Marine Biological Association of India

Sponges of Papua and new Guinea IV. Orders Hadromerida Topsent and Epipolasida Sollas

Volume 44 Issue 1&2

P. A. Thomas

Abstract

Nine species and one subspecies belonging to the orders Hadromerida Topsent and Epipolasida Sollas collected from Papua and New Guinea are described with suitable illustrations. The distribution of Aciculites orientalis Dendy, known only from Gulf of Mannar, is here extended to Papua and New Guinea and the presence of internal asexual bud in the case of Asteropus sarasinorum (Thiele) is also pointed out.

Date : 30-12-2002

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