Ríos, P.; Cristobo, J. (2007). A new species of Phorbas (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 87 (6): 1485-1490.
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Ríos, P.; Cristobo, J.
2007
A new species of<i> Phorbas</i> (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Phorbas is a common genus with cosmopolitan distribution. A new species of sponge, Phorbas megasigma sp. nov. (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Hymedesmiidae) is described from material collected during the third Spanish expedition on the study of the Antarctic benthos, ‘Bentart 03’. Phorbas megasigma is closely related to P. nexus but differs in the possession of arcuate chelae and very big sigmata as microscleres.