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Lage, A.; Araujo, H.P.M.; Gerovasileiou, V.; Muricy, G. (2018). A new cave-dwelling species of Plakina (Porifera: Homoscleromorpha) from Crete, Greece (South Aegean Sea). in Deep Sea and Cave sponges, Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & De Voogd, N. (eds). Zootaxa. 4466 (1): 39-48.
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Lage, A.; Araujo, H.P.M.; Gerovasileiou, V.; Muricy, G.
2018
A new cave-dwelling species of <i>Plakina</i> (Porifera: Homoscleromorpha) from Crete, Greece (South Aegean Sea). <i>in</i> Deep Sea and Cave sponges, Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & De Voogd, N. (eds)
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4466 (1): 39-48
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Recent studies showed a high diversity of the class Homoscleromorpha (Porifera) in the North Aegean Sea. In the South Aegean Sea, however, only one species of the homoscleromorph genus Plakina, P. weinbergi, was reported so far. Here we describe a new species of Plakina from a marine cave in the South Aegean Sea (Crete Island, Greece), viz., Plakina strongylata sp. nov. The new species is white, fragile, with a highly folded surface, and its spicules are diods, triods and calthrops with rounded extremities plus mono- and dilophose diods, mono-, di- and trilophose triods, and mono-, di, triand tetralophose calthrops. The number of Plakina species worldwide is raised to 35, of which nine occur in the Aegean Sea.
Mediterranean Sea in general
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Plakina strongylata Lage, Araujo, Gerovasileiou & Muricy, 2018 (original description)
Aegean Sea for Plakina strongylata Lage, Araujo, Gerovasileiou & Muricy, 2018
New Caledonia for Corticium vaceleti Lage, Muricy, Ruiz & Pérez, 2018
New Caledonia for Corticium vaceleti Lage, Muricy, Ruiz & Pérez, 2018
Holotype MNRJ 18050, geounit New Caledonia, identified as Corticium vaceleti Lage, Muricy, Ruiz & Pérez, 2018
Holotype MNRJ 21242, geounit Aegean Sea, identified as Plakina strongylata Lage, Araujo, Gerovasileiou & Muricy, 2018
Holotype MNRJ 21242, geounit Aegean Sea, identified as Plakina strongylata Lage, Araujo, Gerovasileiou & Muricy, 2018