A new species of Isodictya (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Ríos, P. (Pilar), Riesgo, A. (Ana), Taboada, S. (Sergi)o, Cristobo, J. (Javier)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón 2020
• Subjects: Taxonomy; Biodiversity; Phylogeny; Bellingshausen Sea; Peter I island; Antarctica; new species; biology; Molecular biology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Deception Island; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Peter I Island; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Low Island; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/12080; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02654-x

We discovered a new species of Porifera belonging to the genus Isodictya Bowerbank, 1864 during cruises aboard R/V Hesperides in Antarctica. Collected samples are mostly part of the surveys of the Spanish project BENTART whose main objective has been to study the benthic communities inhabiting sea b...