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Geodia barretti |
1855-08-06 |
Vikna Island, Norway |
183m |
Robert Mc Andrew and Lucas Barrett |
BNHM 1877.5.21.1399 |
Natural History Museum, London, UK |
dry |
J. S. Bowerbank |
1st of January 2013 |
Paco Cardenas |
Morphological description (show/hide)
Medium-sized oval speci- men (length: 12 cm, width: 8 cm) | one preoscule | smooth |
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This is the holotype described by Bowerbank (1872, plate XI) which has been cut into five pieces (the main specimen and four smaller pieces). The section comes from a Bowerbank slide from the type.
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Reference (show/hide)
Cárdenas P, Moore JA (2017) First records of Geodia demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens. Marine Biodiversity. doi:10.1007/s12526-017-0775-3 |
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