George Anita M, VAN Soest Rob W M, Sluka Robert D, Lazarus S
CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, 403 004, India Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101, Australia Institute for Environmental Research Social Education, 14 Main St, Nesamony Nagar, TN 629 001 India.
Zootaxa. 2020 Nov 25;4885(2):zootaxa.4885.2.10. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.2.10.
An inventory of sponges from the shallow subtidal reefs of the west and east coasts of southern India is presented. The specimens offered in this paper were based on in-situ collections unlike the previous records of dry and net-entangled collections. A total of 101 species belonging to 12 orders, 22 families, 5 subfamilies and 44 genera from 4 subclasses of Class Demospongiae and one species from Class Calcarea are recorded. We recorded 18 new records to India, six new species combinations, 37 potential new records, and 40 species for the first time from the southwest coast.
本文展示了印度南部西海岸和东海岸浅潮下带珊瑚礁的海绵动物清单。与之前干燥和网缠收集记录不同，本文提供的标本基于现场采集。共记录了来自寻常海绵纲4个亚纲的12目、22科、5亚科、44属的101种海绵动物，以及钙质海绵纲的1种。我们记录了18个印度新记录、6个新物种组合、37个潜在新记录，以及首次在西南海岸发现的40个物种。
