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| Soest, R.W.M. van; Beglinger, E.J.. |
| The Sultanate of Oman harbours rich populations of sponges, especially in the four coral reef areas (Musandam Peninsula, Muscat coast & Daymaniyat islands, coasts of Masirah Island, and the Khuriya Muriya Islands). Up till now, apart from a few incidental samples, the sponges of Oman were known only from five dredge stations made by the John Murray Expedition 1933-1934 off the south coasts of Oman, near the Khuriya Muriya Islands, between 13.5 and 1415 m. Descriptions of the sponges obtained in these dredges were published by Burton (1959) and the specimens are deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London. To complement these dredge samples, we recently obtained samples collected by SCUBA and shore collecting, mostly from the... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Porifera; New species; Checklist; Oman; Gulf of Arabia; 42.72. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/292120 |
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| Soest, R.W.M. van; Beglinger, E.J.; Voogd, N.J. de. |
| We present a review of astrophorid species possessing calthrops megascleres as structural megascleres (including species with dichotriaene modifi cations, but excluding mesotriaene and trichotriaene bearing species). Radiating oxeas characteristic of most astrophorids are lacking in such sponges, but auxiliary oxeas are apparently present in some species. Th ese sponges are currently assigned to two families, Pachastrellidae with four nominal genera Dercitus, Stoeba, Dercitancorina, Halinastra (the latter two generally considered junior synonyms of Stoeba), and Calthropellidae with nominal genera Calthropella, Corticellopsis (usually considered a junior synonym), Pachataxa and Pachastrissa. Our review of many original specimens and extensive new material... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Sponges; Astrophorida; Pachastrellidae; Dercitus; Calthropellidae; Calthropella; Taxonomy; New species; 42.72. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/376610 |
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| Soest, R.W.M. van; Beglinger, E.J.; Voogd, N.J. de. |
| Based on collections assembled by Dutch expeditions to the Northwest African region, including the offshore islands in the neighbouring Atlantic, a taxonomic monograph of sponges of the genus Mycale is presented. Additional material from the region borrowed from the Zoologisk Museum of the University of Copenhagen and incidental samples made by individual collectors were also included. The combined collections contained sixteen species, nine of which are new to science: Mycale (Aegogropila) syringosimilis spec. nov., Mycale (Aegogropila) tenerifensis spec. nov., Mycale (Arenochalina) africamucosa spec. nov., Mycale (Carmia) atropha spec. nov., Mycale (Carmia) guineensis spec. nov., Mycale (Naviculina) cruzi spec. nov., Mycale (Paresperella) janvermeuleni... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Porifera; Sponges; New species; Mycale; Saharan Upwelling; Sahelian Upwelling; Macaronesia; 42.72. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/516158 |
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| Soest, R.W.M. van; Beglinger, E.J.. |
| Recent (1998) collecting off the coasts of Oman in the course of the EC-MAS3 funded ‘Symbiosponge’ project yielded three species of the genus Biemna Gray, 1867 (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Mycalina, Desmacellidae) not previously known from the area. One of these appeared to be new to science and is described as Biemna omanensis n.sp.. Its distinguishing features comprise the possession of oxea megascleres, which is of rare occurrence in Biemna, and a full complement of microscleres including microxeas, sigmas, commata, all of which are divisible in two non-overlapping size categories, and raphides. One of the other two species conformed to an earlier described species Biemna ciocalyptoides Burton, 1959, which was discovered to be a junior synonym of... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Porifera; Oman; Biemna; New species. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/505076 |
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