Three new records of Keratosa sponges (Demospongiae: Porifera) from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Pereira, P.A.; Raghunathan, C.

dc.contributor.author	Pereira, P.A.
dc.contributor.author	Raghunathan, C.
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-20T11:03:20Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-20T11:03:20Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.identifier.citation	Discover Oceans. 1; 2024; ArticleID_2.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.1007/s44289-024-00002-z
dc.identifier.uri	http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7245
dc.description.abstract	Keratose sponges (Keratosa Grant, 1861) of India have not been studied much in detail. The present investigation is part of exploratory sponge taxonomy studies conducted at several localities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during 2015-2018. Three keratose sponges distributed among three different families are reported herein for the first time from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Dysidea granulosa Bergquist, 1965 (Dysideidae Gray, 1867); Dictyodendrilla cavernosa (Lendenfeld, 1888) (Dictyodendrillidae Bergquist, 1980), Phyllospongia papyracea (Esper, 1806) (Thorectidae Bergquist, 1978). Among these, D. cavernosa is a new record to India. Taxonomic descriptions of all the three species are provided and their distribution within the Andaman and Nicobar Islands vis-a-vis Indo-Pacific is discussed.	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer	en_US
dc.subject	Zoology	en_US
dc.title	Three new records of Keratosa sponges (Demospongiae: Porifera) from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India	en_US
dc.type	Journal article	en_US