Premium
Redescription of Tethya norvegica Bowerbank (Porifera, Demospongiae), with remarks on the genus Tethya in the North East Atlantic
Author(s) -
SARÀ MICHELE,
BAVESTRELLO GIORGIO,
MENSI PAOLA
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1992.tb00323.x
Subject(s) - biology , taxonomy (biology) , zoology , ecology , genus
Tethya norvegica Bowerbank, 1872, a northern species generally synonymized with T. aurantium . has been studied from Scotland, The Faroes, Norway, Iceland, Spitzbergen and Bear Island. The species is redescribed and its North East Atlantic distribution delimited Tethya norvegica is compared, on the basis of morphometric and electrophoretic features, with T. aurantium and F.citrina . Morphological, morphometric and electrophoretic data suggest that I norvegica is a distinct biological species.