{"title":"A new Mediterranean species of Tethya (Porifera: Tethyida: Demospongiae)","authors":"G. Corriero, F. Gadaleta, G. Bavestrello","doi":"10.1080/11250003.2015.1077278","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A new species of Tethya, T. meloni, is described from the Mediterranean Sea. The sponge, spherical in shape, displays a large size, up to about 8 cm in diameter. The surface is pale yellow, covered by flattened tubercles. It differs from the known Mediterranean Tethya species (T. citrina and T. aurantium) according to the following traits: larger body size; colour; shape and size of megasters; distribution pattern of micrasters.","PeriodicalId":14615,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Zoology","volume":"82 1","pages":"535 - 543"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Italian Journal of Zoology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2015.1077278","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract A new species of Tethya, T. meloni, is described from the Mediterranean Sea. The sponge, spherical in shape, displays a large size, up to about 8 cm in diameter. The surface is pale yellow, covered by flattened tubercles. It differs from the known Mediterranean Tethya species (T. citrina and T. aurantium) according to the following traits: larger body size; colour; shape and size of megasters; distribution pattern of micrasters.